For such arrangements and covenants we are willing to fight and to continue to fight until they are achieved; but only because we wish the right to prevail and desire a just and stable peace such as can be secured only by removing the chief provocations to war, which this program does remove. We have no jealousy of German greatness, and there is nothing in this program that impairs it.
We grudge her no achievement or distinction of learning or of pacific enterprise such as have made her record very bright and very enviable. We do not wish to injure her or to block in any way her legitimate influence or power. We do not wish to fight her either with arms or with hostile arrangements of trade if she is willing to associate herself with us and the other peace-loving nations of the world in covenants of justice and law and fair dealing. We wish her only to accept a place of equality among the peoples of the world,the new world in which we now live,instead of a place of mastery.
Neither do we presume to suggest to her any alteration or modification of her institutions. But it is necessary, we must frankly say, and necessary as a preliminary to any intelligent dealings with her on our part, that we should know whom her spokesmen speak for when they speak to us, whether for the Reichstag majority or for the military party and the men whose creed is imperial domination.
We have spoken now, surely, in terms too concrete to admit of any further doubt or question. An evident principle runs through the whole program I have outlined.
It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
Unless this principle be made its foundation no part of the structure of international justice can stand.
The people of the United States could act upon no other principle; and to the vindication of this principle they are ready to devote their lives, their honor, and everything that they possess. The moral climax of this the culminating and final war for human liberty has come, and they are ready to put their own strength, their own highest purpose, their own integrity and devotion to the test. The information provided on this site is not legal advice, does not constitute a lawyer referral service, and no attorney-client or confidential relationship is or will be formed by use of the site.
The attorney listings on this site are paid attorney advertising. In some states, the information on this website may be considered a lawyer referral service. Please reference the Terms of Use and the Supplemental Terms for specific information related to your state. Grow Your Legal Practice. Meet the Editors. Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points". Woodrow Wilson's Message The 14 points included proposals to ensure world peace in the future: open agreements, arms reductions, freedom of the seas, free trade, and self-determination for oppressed minorities.
Fourteen Points. Talk to a Lawyer Need a lawyer? Start here. Practice Area Please select Zip Code. How it Works Briefly tell us about your case Provide your contact information Choose attorneys to contact you. In the missive, the Duce cautions the Fuhrer against waging war against Britain.
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Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Latin America. US Government. Sign Up. Gay Rights. War of Art, Literature, and Film History. World War I. The 14 Points called for a just peace for all parties involved in the Great War, the end of secret treaties between nations, free trade among nations, freedom of the seas, self-determination for people under colonial rule, and an international group like the League of Nations to deal with world security.
The 14 Points document was then used as a part of a promotional and propaganda campaign in Europe. Initially, it received support from European leaders, and Germany asked to be treated under its provisions when it ended hostilities against the Allied forces. But as the Versailles Treaty was negotiated, key components of the 14 Points document fell by the wayside.
Great Britain objected to its freedom of the seas component, and much harsher peace terms were imposed on Germany. Central powers poster : A propaganda poster depicts the alliance between the Central powers in World War I. Bulgaria was the first to collapse when a combined force of French, British, Italians, Serbs, and Greeks attacked through Albania in September By the end of the month, Bulgaria surrendered and withdrew its troops from Serbia and Greece, even allowing the Allies to use Bulgaria in military operations.
During the — Arab Revolt in what is now the Middle East, the Ottoman Army fell to British forces and Arab nationalist fighters aided by a key British military liaison and guerrilla leader named T. Lawrence, photo by Lowell Thomas, : T. The photo was taken by Lowell Thomas, an American war correspondent and broadcaster whose photos and film are credited with making Lawrence famous.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire also surrendered in October. The Habsburg royal family and the Austro-Hungarian government desperately sought to keep its domain of diverse nationalities together, but the once-powerful dynastic empire fell apart and split into the separate states of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
With no one to stand alongside it, Germany surrendered and on November 11, , the horrors of World War I finally came to an end. President Woodrow Wilson required that Germany accede to the terms of the Fourteen Points, which required the return of territory acquired by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to Russia, and the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to France.
Germany considered the terms extremely harsh, while the Allied nations found them too lenient. The details of the agreement were hammered out the following year during the Paris Peace Conference. Russia ceded territory to Germany in this treaty, which was reversed with the end of World War I.
By the end of the war, there were millions of casualties. Many died in battle, while others succumbed to disease and malnutrition resulting from the destruction of their homes and surroundings. The economic toll was incredibly high as a result of the war, both in the overall shift in production concerns and the deprivation of nations denied or stripped of resources, causing widespread starvation throughout Europe during the winter of — Many veterans found themselves homeless and jobless upon their return from the battlefields.
World War I had touched every aspect of the lives of those who survived to see much of Europe and its territories in ruins. The Fourteen Points, a speech made by Woodrow Wilson in January outlining the aims of the Great War, became the blueprint for postwar peace negotiations. The Fourteen Points was a speech given by U. President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, The address was intended to assure the country that World War I, which America had joined on April 6, , was being fought for a moral cause and for a lasting postwar peace in Europe.
The speech was delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany in November , and became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his peace-making efforts first envisioned in the speech.
Some belligerents in the conflict gave general indications of their aims, but most kept their postwar goals to themselves, making the Fourteen Points speech the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I. House, on the topics most likely to arise in the anticipated peace conference at the end of the war. The decree led to the March 3, , signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, under which Russia immediately withdrew from the war.
The Fourteen Points could be simplified to a core list of agreements and goals for all participating nations:. The speech was widely disseminated as an instrument of propaganda to encourage the Allies to victory. Copies were dropped behind German lines to encourage the Central powers to surrender in the expectation of a just settlement and, indeed, that was the result: a note sent to Wilson by German Imperial Chancellor Maximilian of Baden in October requested an immediate armistice and peace negotiations on the basis of the Fourteen Points.
This made it the centerpiece of the long debates over an equitable peace settlement and treaty terms that came afterward. Britain later signed off on all of the points except the freedom of the seas. The United Kingdom also wanted Germany to make reparation payments for the war and believed that condition should be included in the Fourteen Points.
Georges Clemenceau : Georges Clemenceau September 28, —November 24, served as the prime minister of France and was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles. President Wilson became sick at the onset of the Paris Peace Conference, which began on January 18, , at the Palace of Versailles approximately 12 miles from Paris. The most controversial alteration was that Germany received the blame for the whole war and was required to pay an astronomical sum in war reparations, including compensation for the damage inflicted on the territories its military occupied and funding for the pensions of wounded Allied soldiers and widows.
Germany was also denied an air force, and the German army was not to exceed , men. President Woodrow Wilson. These leaders largely set the peace terms for the defeated Central powers, reshaping the map of Europe through territorial expansions and losses that favored the victors. While the conference should have been considered a victory for Wilson, whose envisioned League of Nations was established, the U.
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