Nikhai Hill-Green July 1 1919

WOODROW WILSON’S 14 POINTS

1. Open diplomacy 8. Restoration of French

JUSTIFICATIONS territory
FOR U.S WAR ENTRY 2. Freedom of the seas
9. Redrawing of Italian
There were two major 3. Removal of economic
frontiers
events that were used to barriers
justify entry of the US 10. Division of Austria-
into WW1:
4. Reductions of armaments
Hungry
5. Adjustment of colonial
A. The Zimmermann Tel- 11. Redrawing of Balkan
claims
egram. boundaries
6. Conquered territories in
12. Limitations on Turkey
B. The sinking of the Lu- Russia
sitania. 13. Indepenant Poland
7. Preservation of Belgian
Keep in mind the follow- sovereignty 14. Assoiation of Nations
Caption describing picture or graphic
ing. Regarding the Zim-
mermann Telegram,
Mexico completely ig-
nored the note and didn't PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE
take it seriously. Given
that, was a declaration of Points one through five attempted to eliminate the immediate causes of
the war: imperialism, trade restrictions, arms races, secret treaties, and
war by the US upon Ger-
disregard of nationalist tendencies. Points six through 13 attempted to
many justified? Regard-
restore territories occupied during the war and set post-war bounda-
ing the Lusitania, it was
ries, also based on national self-determination. In the 14th Point, Wil-
tragic, but it also cannot
son envisioned a global organization to protect states and prevent fu-
be denied that Germany
ture wars.
had declared a general
war zone and the use of
unrestricted submarine
warfare surrounding the
British Isles, and US
ships willfully ignored
ATTEMPT AT LASTING PEACE
that warning.
The outstanding thing for which he fought, the
thing that transcends political and economic con-
siderations, is the permanent peace of the world.
Unless this is secured all else is failure; without
this the sublimest hope of humanity is sunk in the
black abyss; without this all political and economic
adjustments are unstable and sooner or later will
disappear.
FOUNDATION FOR LASTING PEACE
Wilson declared the Fourteen Points, a statement
of principles intended to lay the foundation of last-
ing peace after the end of the Great War. Free
trade, open diplomacy, national self-
determination, the League of Nations, ideas which
remain as relevant and as controversial as they
were a century ago.

“only a peace between equals can last”-Woodrow Wilson

ESTABLISHING NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

Woodrow Wilson issued for colonial peoples.
these Fourteen Points as a
roadmap for a just and per-
manent peace. He proposed
that European nations, in-
cluding Belgium and
France, be restored to their
former condition. He also
advised against punishing
Germany with overly harsh
measures. Wilson advocated
progressive ideals of democ-
racy, transparent and open
diplomacy, and free trade as
the proper basis for Ameri-
can foreign policy. Perhaps
most surprising to the citi-
zens at the time, his fifth
point introduced the princi-
ple of national sovereignty 2