Bonnie Meyer's Profile

The West relied on Northern
and Southern manpower and national support to protect and develop the land; the
North bought her agricultural and raw materials from the South and West and in
turn sold manufactured goods

would be technology and transportatio

n the Four-Power Treaty, the United States, France, Britain, and Japan agreed to consult with each other in the event of a future crisis in East Asia before taking action. This treaty replaced the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1902,

By ending that treaty and creating a Four-Power agreement, the countries involved ensured that none would be obligated to engage in a conflict, but a mechanism would exist for discussions if one emerged.

Nine-Power Treaty, which marked the internationalization of the U.S. Open Door Policy in China.

Like the Four-Power Treaty, the treaty on China called for consultations in the event of a violation instead of tying the signatories to a particular response.

Japan and China also signed a bilateral agreement, the Shangtung (Shandong) Treaty, which returned control of that province and its railroad to China.

Together, the treaties signed at the Washington Conference served to uphold the status quo in the Pacific: they recognized existing interests and did not make fundamental changes to them.

First, it was hard to say exactly what indicated a separate race.  

Second, in many parts of Europe, particularly the Balkans, races were too
mixed up to be divided without large-scale movements of population.  
Third, real countries cannot be created by drawing lines between racial
groups.  

Point thirteen had suggested that Poland divided in the eighteenth
century between Prussia, Russia and Austria should be restored to independence.  
The idea seemed fair.  
There is no doubt the Poles had been badly treated.  
However, their eighteenth-century lands had really been an empire
comprising conquered peoples.  
Consequently only about two-thirds of the new Poland was inhabited by
Poles.   Furthermor

The port at the end of it, Danzig, was made a free city under
international, not Polish, control. 

First, the German-speaking population of Austria contained many who
wanted union (Anschluss) with Germany.

He
was angry that France got the Saar coalfields for only 15 years, and he was
angry that the Rhineland was merely demilitarised – France had wanted it made
into a powerless independent country, and Germany split up.  

Britain refused to accept freedom of the seas, and neither Britain,
France nor Belgium would allow self-determination to the colonies in their
empires. 

But he thought Wilson’s League of Nations was a
‘dead duck’, he opposed self-determination and was sure that putting 3½
million Germans into Czechoslovakia would caused great problems there.