Woodrow Wilson's Role in the peace process
After the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Woodrow Wilson had come back to
America with the Treaty of Versailles that would create a League of Nations. The
League would supposedly have the power to prevent all future wars and make the
world a better place. The American public seemed to be in favor of the treaty
and the League, but the treaty was never ratified and the United States never
entered the League of Nations.
America with the Treaty of Versailles that would create a League of Nations. The
League would supposedly have the power to prevent all future wars and make the
world a better place. The American public seemed to be in favor of the treaty
and the League, but the treaty was never ratified and the United States never
entered the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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.
1. No more secret
agreements ("Open covenants openly arrived at").
2. Free navigation
of all seas.
3. An end to all economic
barriers between countries.
4. Countries to reduce
weapon numbers.
5. All decisions regarding
the colonies should be impartial
6. The German Army is to be
removed from Russia. Russia should be left to develop
her own political set-up.
7. Belgium should be
independent like before the war.
8. France should be fully
liberated and allowed to recover Alsace-Lorraine
9. All Italians are to be
allowed to live in Italy. Italy's borders are to "along
clearly
recognisable lines of nationality."
10. Self-determination
should be allowed for all those living in Austria-Hungary.
11. Self-determination and
guarantees of independence should be allowed for
the Balkan states.
12. The Turkish people
should be governed by the Turkish government. Non-Turks in
the old
Turkish Empire should govern themselves.
13. An independent Poland
should be created which should have access to the sea.
14. A League of Nations should be set up to guarantee
the political and territorial
independence of all states.
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.
1. No more secret
agreements ("Open covenants openly arrived at").
2. Free navigation
of all seas.
3. An end to all economic
barriers between countries.
4. Countries to reduce
weapon numbers.
5. All decisions regarding
the colonies should be impartial
6. The German Army is to be
removed from Russia. Russia should be left to develop
her own political set-up.
7. Belgium should be
independent like before the war.
8. France should be fully
liberated and allowed to recover Alsace-Lorraine
9. All Italians are to be
allowed to live in Italy. Italy's borders are to "along
clearly
recognisable lines of nationality."
10. Self-determination
should be allowed for all those living in Austria-Hungary.
11. Self-determination and
guarantees of independence should be allowed for
the Balkan states.
12. The Turkish people
should be governed by the Turkish government. Non-Turks in
the old
Turkish Empire should govern themselves.
13. An independent Poland
should be created which should have access to the sea.
14. A League of Nations should be set up to guarantee
the political and territorial
independence of all states.