Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
*Originally for the American people to justify war
*United states is following a policy called "isolationism"
*United states felt that because they were in North american they had very few fears of invasion or people attacking them, so they thought if they stayed out of world affairs they wouldn't have to fight in another war.
*Tricky because thats what the american people felt, not what Woodrow Wilson felt, he felt that they were a world power and because of this he thought that they should try and prevent further wars.
*14 points would make United States involved in world affairs
*The most important points were:
-Outlawing Alliances (get ride of them then you'd have a good chance at eliminating big wars)
-Freedom of the Seas (everyone would usually fight for water, so made it international waters)
-Free Trade (No tariffs or taxes so you could sell more)
-Disarmament ( lower amount of guns and military weapons in the war)
-Return of Russian Territory held by Germany
-Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
*Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
*Self Determination (idea of all the smaller countries now becoming independent)
*United states is following a policy called "isolationism"
*United states felt that because they were in North american they had very few fears of invasion or people attacking them, so they thought if they stayed out of world affairs they wouldn't have to fight in another war.
*Tricky because thats what the american people felt, not what Woodrow Wilson felt, he felt that they were a world power and because of this he thought that they should try and prevent further wars.
*14 points would make United States involved in world affairs
*The most important points were:
-Outlawing Alliances (get ride of them then you'd have a good chance at eliminating big wars)
-Freedom of the Seas (everyone would usually fight for water, so made it international waters)
-Free Trade (No tariffs or taxes so you could sell more)
-Disarmament ( lower amount of guns and military weapons in the war)
-Return of Russian Territory held by Germany
-Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
*Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
*Self Determination (idea of all the smaller countries now becoming independent)
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Summary
Not all Woodrow's points were used or helped, but the few that did we still use today, such as free trade, freedom of seas and self determination.