Perspectives from Paris 1919 by ISABELL COOK https://padlet.com/cooki4/apw3ljadnfhhlf1p Made with wonder en-us 2021-04-29 06:06:47 UTC 2021-04-30 05:50:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://www.cliohistory.org/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_9a_Paris_963764968a.jpg SELF DETERMINATION cooki4 https://padlet.com/cooki4/apw3ljadnfhhlf1p/wish/1473365183 Self determination stems from the idea that people have a right to decide there own future and live within there own territorial unit. Self determination emerged in the 19th century, President Woodrow Wilson insisted after the devastation of the first world war this was the only way to unite countries in order to conquer the post war after math. The principle of Self Determination was perceived as admirable it was proven hard to put into practice. 
President Wilson preached across countries “Self Determination” convincing countries that a group of people or countries that shared the same beliefs could strive together. At this time self determination was a political principle and was not accepted as an international normality or right.
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]]> 2021-04-29 12:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cooki4/apw3ljadnfhhlf1p/wish/1473365183 RACIAL EQUALITY cooki4 https://padlet.com/cooki4/apw3ljadnfhhlf1p/wish/1476957670 Racial equality in the Paris Peace making Conference was displayed through the power that white male leaders held and used in a power play. President Woodraw Wilson played a part in the Paris Peace making conference by introducing the fourteen key points that would resolve conflict and better the nations post world war one. Though this idea was extremely admirable his plan quickly started to fail. Wilsons was seen as a hero to countries such as China and India who felt Wilson could “bridging the yawning gap that in prewar international society separated the peoples of the east and the west” Erez Manela Imaginig Woodrown WIilson in Asia: Dreams of east west harmony and the revolt against empire in 1919, 2006. Though these countries aspired to develop into what would look like a western society they were unaware of Wilsons racist choices he was making in his own country. Wilson went to Princeton University and in his presidency he banned African Americans from applying to Prinecton, he also had them removed from parliament, “The Wilson government party did nothing to advance racial equality but instead segregated them by introducing racial segregation in the U.S federal government” - Lake, Marilyn, and Henry Reynolds. Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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