"Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance. . . .
I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one consent adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful."
— Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917
Which of the following developments of the World War I era was most directly prefigured by the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
- AThe immediate entry of the United States into the conflict following the sinking of the USS Maine
- BThe creation of a US-led military alliance in the Western Hemisphere to enforce exclusive trade rights
- The formulation of the Fourteen Points to guide postwar peace negotiationsCevap
- DA formal US commitment to absolute isolationism that prohibited any future diplomatic involvement in Europe