Abstract
The right to self-determination and equality among nations are highly-valued ideas that U.S. president Woodrow Wilson overtly introduced in the Fourteen Points of 1918. This program was welcomed by colonized peoples, thus creating a wave of revolutionary activities on the wake of the First World War. The oppressed peoples in Asia such as the Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and Chinese all looked to the US for support for their own national liberation struggles as well their request for equality among nations. However, the U.S. almost showed no strong commitment to their peace and democracy-oriented ideals and later switched to a pragmatic foreign policy to circumvent tensions with imperial nations. This fact, on one hand, discouraged colonized peoples which were heading to the U.S. for her good will and, on the other hand, brought down the idea of a new world order favoring long-lasting peace and stability.
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