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The Fourteen Points was a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great ...
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Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points ; January 8, 1918 ... ; President Woodrow Wilson ... It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by;
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the Russians already having made their sepa rate peace with the Germans in March 1918. The Germans then accepted Wilson's terms, hoping that the moderate tenor of the 14 Points would let them off lightly in the peace to be negotiated.
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At the conclusion of hostilities the Big Four (Wilson form the United States, Clemenceau from France, Orlando from Italy and David Lloyd George from England) met to discuss the treaty that would end the war. Wilson pushed for his 14 Points.
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Once more, as repeatedly before, the spokesmen of the Central Empires have indicated their desire to discuss the objects of the war and the possible basis of a general peace. ... World War I Document Archive > 1918 Documents > President Wilson's Fourteen Points...
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8 January, 1918: President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points ... It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by;
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Wilson’s 14 points in summary ... 14) establishment of a League of Nations ... Despite Wilson's efforts, the U.S. Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
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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 ... 14. A League of Nations should be set up to guarantee the political and territorial independence of all states.
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Modern History Sourcebook: Woodrow Wilson: Speech on the Fourteen Points Jan 8, 1918 ... From Woodrow Wilson, "Speech on the Fourteen Points," Congressional Record, 65th Congress 2nd Session, 1918, pp. 680­681.
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