When is anyone going to see a "League of Nations" again? I mean whats everybody think about when they hear Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations? And when do you hear about a League of Nations anywhere? Now all anybody has is Bill Clinton in Kosovo.
The ‘Wilsonian Moment’ was a time in the wake of the First World War in which many of those in the colonised world hoped that the time had come for the pre-war world order, which placed the Western powers at the top and marginalised the majority of the rest of the world, to be demolished and non-European nations would be given their rightful place.[13][14] Erez Manela is a key historian of the Wilsonian Moment, having produced work on the topic which include case studies on the Wilsonian Moment in Egypt,[15] Korea,[16] China and India.[13] He aimed to address the fact that the significance of Wilsonianism in Asia and Africa had received little attention from scholars.[15] The reaction in the colonised world was largely the result of Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’ speech on 8 January 1918,[17] in which Wilson advocated the formation of a ‘general association of nations’ ‘for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike’.[18] He declared in a subsequent speech to Congress on February 8, 1918, that in the post-war peace settlement, ‘national aspirations must be respected’ and people could only be governed ‘by their own consent’. Self-determination ‘not a mere phrase’ but an ‘imperative principle of action’.[15]
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip, shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.
Wilson’s words launched an atmosphere of intense optimism and hope amongst marginalised peoples in all corners of the globe and Erez Manela claims that by December 1918, shortly before the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson was ‘a man of almost transcendent significance’.[13] Wilson’s rhetoric certainly had an impact in Asian nations...and the March First movement in Korea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsonian_Armeniahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_PontusXI. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Ottoman rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip, shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.