The Wilsonian Moment
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"...At the Wilsonian Moment, all these peripheral peoples glimpsed the promised land of self-determination, but they could not enter into it, at least not yet. Wilson himself, on the way to Paris, seemed to have an epiphany and some understanding of the impact of this idea of self-determination that he had put out there..."
Key Terms
- Erez Manela - The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism
- Fourteen Points
- Self-Determination of Nations
- Anti-colonial Nationalism
- Paris Peace Conference
- Versailles Treaty
- India
- Indian National Congress
- Mahatma Gandhi
- China
- Sun Yat-sen
- Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)
Guided Viewing Questions
- What was Woodrow Wilson’s idea of self-determination?
- Why did it inspire so much hope around the world in 1918 and 1919?
- Why did Woodrow Wilson not apply his idea of self-determination to non-whites?
- How did colonized peoples react to this the fact that Wilson did not include them in self-determination?
- What did Sun Yat-sen mean when he said "Wilson’s proposals, once set forth, could not be recalled. Each one of the weaker, smaller nations, stirred with a great new consciousness, they saw how completely they had been deceived by the great powers advocacy of self-determination, and they begin independently and separately to carry out the principle of self-determination on their own"?