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Treaty of Versailles and the End of World War I
An excerpt from a speech by President Woodrow Wilson in support of the League of Nations, September 5, 1919.

An excerpt from a speech by President Woodrow Wilson in support of the League of Nations, September 5, 1919.

In this speech, President Wilson defends his idea for a League of Nations to a crowd at a coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri. He discusses the merits of his “little endeavor” and argues why the League, or a coalition of nations that would protect the sovereignty of countries around the world, would be a necessary part of any lasting peace between the nations of the world. He urges both sides of the aisle—Republican and Democrat—to come to an agreement that America should join the League of Nations. Wilson originally proposed the idea for the League of Nations as the final tenet of his Fourteen Points plan.

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Old Colony Trust Company, excerpt from “The treaty of Versailles, American opinion,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/1ca8fde2b2672898a633d290d4118789.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of Michigan via HathiTrust.

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A painting of German chancellor Otto Von Bismarck meeting French diplomats at Versailles after the Franco-Prussian War, ca. 1871.
An excerpt from a pamphlet featuring President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 1919.
A clip of video footage of Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.
An excerpt from a speech by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to the US Senate urging caution about the League of Nations, August 12, 1919.
An excerpt from a speech by President Woodrow Wilson in support of the League of Nations, September 5, 1919.
An advertisement for a mass meeting about the League of Nations titled “Give Her the Key and Lock Him Up,” 1919.
A 1919 map of new national boundaries in Europe as proposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
A clip of newsreel footage of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and soldiers returning home from the Great War, 1919.
A photograph of German delegates listening to the terms of the treaty at the Trianon Palace Hotel, 1919.
A photograph of German diplomats Hermann Mueller and Johannes Bell leaving Versailles after signing the Treaty of Versailles, 1919.
A political cartoon about German attitudes towards the treaty titled “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” 1919.
An excerpt from a pamphlet titled “What Everyone Should Know about the Treaty of Peace,” issued by Berlin’s National Citizens Council, 1921.
A postcard titled “A German Matter of Existence,” 1934.
A political campaign leaflet in support of the Social Democratic Party describing German inflation after the Treaty of Versailles, 1932.
A postcard titled “Never Forget the Shameful Peace at Versailles!,” 1930s.

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