Wilson's idealistic 14 points were largely ignored, and the treaty ultimately sowed the seeds for future conflicts, including World War II. Keywords World War I, peace treaty, Woodrow Wilson ...

8 January 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson today outlined, in a speech to Congress, the ‘programme for the world's peace’ as seen by the United States. It consists of 14 main points ...

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1915. Courtesy: Library of Congress Woodrow Wilson's supreme goal in World War I was to broker an effective and lasting peace. He enumerated his war aims in his famous Fourteen Points speech ...

A man known to his own people as "the Tiger" for his ferociously brilliant political writing, Georges Clemenceau did as much as anyone to weaken the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson brought ...

8 January 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson today outlined, in a speech to Congress, the ‘programme for the world's peace’ as seen by the United States. It consists of 14 main points ...