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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.
- His Fourteen Points were fine
on paper but no nation was
willing to substantially support
them
- 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.
- s a Democrat, he had to deal with a Senate
that had a Republican majority in it after the end
of the war - and party loyalty meant that his
ideas for a world that would be peaceful would
be killed off at a political level.
- Woodrow Wilson was president
of America when the Versailles
Treaty was signed
- Woodrow Wilson was an idealist
whose plan for a League was
permanently weakened by America’s
refusal to join it
- he was an invalid for the rest of his life and died in 1924.