The 14 Points
- Originally for the American people to justify war
- Now presented at the Paris Peace Conference _"Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were first outlined in a speech Wilson gave to the American Congress in January 1918. Wilson's Fourteen Points became the basis for a peace programme and it was on the back of the Fourteen Points that Germany and her allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918." -http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/woodrow_wilson1.htm
The most important were:
-Outlawing alliances
-Freedom of the seas
-Free Trade
-Disarmament
-Return of Russian territory held by Germany
-Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
-Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
-Self Determination
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1324.html
When German leaders signed the armistice, many of them believed that the Fourteen Points would form the basis of the future peace treaty, but when the heads of the governments of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy met in Paris to discuss treaty terms, the European contingent of the "Big Four" had another plan altogether.- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007428
Summary:
Woodrow Wilsons 14 points were created to achieve world peace and stop another war from happening. He presented them in a speech which he gave to the american delegation.