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Global 10R~Ms. Hock & Ms. Powers
Woodrow Wilson’s Plan for Peace
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In January of 1918, after the United States entered the war and victory was on the horizon, U.S.
president Woodrow Wilson issued his Fourteen Points.
Directions: Read the following excerpts from Wilson’s Fourteen Points and answer the questions that follow.
It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open. .
. no secret understandings . . . It is that the world be made fit and safe for every peace-loving nation which,
like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing
by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression . . ..
I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international
understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas…
III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of
trade conditions among all the nations…
IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point
consistent with domestic safety.
V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims…
VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored…
VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to
France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world
for nearly fifty years, should be righted…
X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and
assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development.
XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; and
international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the
several Balkan states should be entered into.
XII. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured security of life…
XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected…
XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of
affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small
states alike.
Questions:
1. Name five ideas that Wilson had for peace:
2. Do you think that Wilson provided an effective plan for peace? Why/why not?
3. Do you that the leaders of Europe will accept this plan? Why/why not?
THE END OF THE WAR
On November 11, 1918, the German government sought an armistice, or agreement to end fighting,
and the Great War was over.
Questions:
4. Based on this cartoon, did the United
States join the League of Nations?
5. Why do you think the Senate refused to
join the League of Nations?
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6. Based on these two maps,
how did Europe change after
World War I?
7. What new countries were
created?
8. According to his Fourteen
Points, what did Wilson want
for these new countries?
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YOU BE THE JUDGE:
How should peace be restored after war?
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Do you think that the European leaders should have used Wilson’s plan for peace? Explain.
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