The 14 points of Woodrow Wilson
Originally for the American people to justify war
• Now presented at the Paris Peace Conference
• 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
• Now presented at the Paris Peace Conference
• 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
Summary: 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.