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.