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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points |
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"We entered this war because violations of right
had occurred which touched us to the quick and
made the life of our own people impossible unless
they were corrected and the world secured once
for all against their recurrence. What we demand
in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to
ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe
to live in; and particularly that is be made safe
for every peace-loving nation which, like our
own, wishes to live its own life, determine its
own institutions, be assured of justice and fair
dealing by the other peoples of the world as
against a force and selfish aggression. All the
peoples of the world are in effect partners in this
interest, and for our own part we see very clearly
that unless justice be done to others it will not
be done to us."1 - President Wilson
- Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at
- Freedom of the seas
- The removal so far as possible of all economic barriers
- The reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with
domestic safety
- Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims
- The evacuation of all Russian territory
- The evacuation and restoration of Belgium
- The liberation of France and return to her of Alsace and Lorraine
- Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy to conform to clearly recognisable
lines of nationality
- The peoples of Austria-Hungary should be accorded the freest opportunity of
autonomous development
- Evacuation of occupation forces from Romania, Serbia and Montenegro; Serbia
should be accorded free and secure access to the sea
- Autonomous development for the non-Turkish peoples of the Ottoman empire;
free passage of the Dardanelles to the ships and commerce of all nations
- An independent Poland to be established, with free and secure access to the
sea
- A general association of nations to be formed to guarantee to its members
political independence and territorial integrity (the genesis of the League of
Nations)2
1Haberman, Arthur. The Making of the Modern Age
2http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/fourteen_points.shtml
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