THE IDEALISTIC VIEW, Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson showed great prescience during his participation in the Paris Peace Conference, but was dismissed as an academic and idealist by Clemenceau, Orlando, and Lloyd George.

-Wilson's Fourteen Points espoused liberal views and wished to end the subjugation of peoples under autocracies and empires.

-Wilson did not want the reparations and punishments towards Germany to be too harsh, because he feared that reactionary movements would gain steam and end in another war.

-Wilson was forced to mediate between the powers of Europe and was forced to give up his Fourteen Points in order to establish a League of Nations.

-Wilson believes that we need to change the psychological mindset of the world in order to avoid another international catastrophe.