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Why Did Woodrow Wilson's Promise of Self-Determination Fail the Colonized World? - Self-Determination Escapes: Anti-Colonial Petitions at the Paris Peace Conference | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the winter of 1918, a young Vietnamese kitchen worker named Nguyễn Ái Quốc drafted a petition in a rented room in Paris and tried to deliver it to the doors of the peace conference. Like millions of people across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, he had taken Woodrow Wilson's promises of self-determination literally. This episode explores what happened when colonized intellectuals, activists, and students from Egypt, India, Korea, and China arrived in Paris seeking a hearing, only to…
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