Wilsons s fourteen points

Slobodan Bavrlic
O'Banion, Patrick John
World History
Wilsons ‘s Fourteen Points
In January 1918, after the World War I, and only a year before the peace conference, American president Woodrow Wilson proposed the postwar suggestion that would regulate the peace after the WWI. His proposal was called Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The goal and the idea were to create the safe world that every peaceful nation will be able to live. Wilson wanted an equal and united world that will stick until the end. This program would not be against Germany, or stop Germany from advancing. The goal of the program was to help Germany to become the part of the new peaceful world. Allied forces were against that program, because that program was spoiling plans about dividing occupied territories among them. The First point was about the diplomacy and that all countries will use the diplomacy on the public view. The Second point had to do with the free sea trade, or the open sea trade. It was allowing the free navigation of all oceans. The Third point was the canceling of the economic barriers between the countries. Free and equal trade is allowed between the countries. The fourth point was the reduction of weapons in all countries. By the reduction of weapons, the world would be a safer place. The Fifth point stated that all decisions regarding the occupied territories should be fair and open-minded.
The next nine points are connected with the territorial integrity and independency. German troops were removed from the Russia and Russia was allowed to develop. Belgium should be independent after the war; France should be open-minded, free and recovered, and it should be allowed for all Italians to go back and live in the Italy. Autonomy and home rule should be back in Austria-Hungary’s borders and be given to all the people that are leaving there. Also for Serbia, Montenegro, and Rumania their occupied countries should be restored, Serbia should get the access to the sea, and there should be friendly relations between the Balkan States. In Turkey, Turkish people should be under the rule of Turkish government, and people that are not Turks should be under the rule of their countries governments. Poland should also get her independence and the access to the sea. The fourteenth point was about the League of Nations. All countries that were in the League of Nations should guarantee the independence and territorial integrity of all other countries.