4.3.7Discuss: Fighting Violence with Violence 1. Discuss whether it is right to fight violence with violence.
2. Was John Brown right in his actions? Consider the circumstances in 1859 and write a paragraph saying why you think he was or was not.

the options of this question are:

a) president wilson’s desire to form the league of nations  

b) germany’s desire for reasonable conditions of surrender and fair treatment.  

c)europe’s desire to maintain original pre-war borders  

d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions

the correct answer is d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions.

the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions had the greatest influence on how germany was treated after world war i.

it is estimated that the cost of wwi was around 260 billion dollars, and the allies wanted germany to pay a big part for the losses. the allies also wanted to impose land losses as well as limit the army of germany and confiscate their industrial resources to apply the retribution.

in the united states, president woodrow wilson created the fourteen points to be delivered to germany, as a peace program. he presented these documents to the u.s. congress in january 1918.

the missile gap was the cold war term used in the us for the perceived superiority of the number and power of the ussr's missiles in comparison with its own (a lack of military parity).