Аннотация: US President Woodrow Wilson and Belarus. A historical note.
US President Woodrow Wilson and Belarus. A historical note.
US President Woodrow Wilson and his "Fourteen Points" played a huge role in the fate of post-revolutionary Russia.
Under Woodrow Wilson, the American Relief Administration (ARA) was created, which played a huge role in the fight against hunger (including in Soviet Russia).
In the biography of Woodrow Wilson, there is a mention of Belarus, too.
According to З.М. Гершов "Вудро Вильсон" (1983) [the book by Z.M. Gershov "Woodrow Wilson" (1983)], the only foreign award that this American president accepted was the Order of the White Eagle (p. 292). This order was awarded by the Polish government to Woodrow Wilson in 1922.
Fourteen points were outlined by Woodrow Wilson in his speech to Congress on January 8, 1918.
On March 4, 1921, Woodrow Wilson's second presidential term ended.
On March 18, 1921, the Riga Peace Treaty was signed following the results of the so-called Soviet-Polish war (1919-1921).
According to the Peace of Riga (1921), a significant part of Belarus (the historical territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of the Rzeczpospolita), after a short-term establishment of Soviet power, returned into the Western World.
The adoption of the Order of the White Eagle in 1922 can be perceived as a benevolent, approving attitude of Woodrow Wilson to the return of a significant part of Belarus into the Western World.
August 25, 2020 8:26
Translation from Russian into English: August 25, 2020 08:53.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Президент США Вудро Вильсон и Белоруссия. Историческая заметка'.