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World War one left a lasting effect on the world today through the devastation and the treaties that took place during this time. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Point Speech helped influence the making of the Treaty of Versailles after World War One. These documents were made to spread peace throughout the world. Both these documents changed the United States and the world and lead to the resistance of Germany and the rise of the Nazi Party during World War Two.

World War One’s devastating outcome led to many changes and different views between countries. During World War One, the United States suffered from 320,710 casualties (WW1 Casualties and Death Tables). During World War One a total of 37,466,904 casualties took place (WW1 Casualties and Death Tables). Every country that was involved in the war suffered from an immense amount of soldiers being killed in the line of duty or dying from wounds or illnesses that struck during this time. Germany, also, suffered tremendous losses during this war. Out of the 11, 000, 000 mobilized soldiers that they had, 1,773,700 were killed. Their total casualties amounted to 7,142,558 in all, which, when calculated, was 64.9% of their men (WW1 Casualties and Death Tables). Germany, although suffered from massive casualties and was not exempt from any of the tragedies that took place for all the countries, they did not get out of World War One easily and had a difficult time once all the countries started to come together to figure out a post-war plan. When the representatives came together in Paris, all of the wars destruction was blamed on Germany and that was taken into account when they were creating the Treaty of Versailles.

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...ctedly, Germany was able to revolt under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. “Within 4 years Mussolini had become premier of Italy” and this was a direct effect from the resentment of Wilsons Fourteen Points (8). The failure of the Treaty of Versailles and the Fourteen Point Speech was a huge downfall for the entire world.

The United States and the whole world was effect by these two treaties. Germany was able to revolt and that caused mass hysteria within every country. One good thing that came from the Fourteen Point Speech was that “his proposal did help influence to eventful cease-fire in the war, as well as many individual nations’ independence movements around the world’ (9). Since the treaties were “largely, if not entirely driven by self-interest and they undoubtedly played their part in the process that would lead to the new world war in just two decades” (10).