In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:

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President Wilson was forced to compromise his lofty principle of national self-determination in order to appease the Big Four and secure a peace settlement. He had to abandon his idea that ethnic groups should have the right to form their own independent nations. This compromise ultimately weakened the Treaty of Versailles and contributed to the outbreak of World War II.

In Negotiating with the Big Four Over Many Postwar Territorial