11/28/2012

The fourteen points are a speech Woodrow Wilson gave to joint sessions of congress. The 14 point were ment to create piece in Europe. America joined the Allies on April 6, 1917 because the Germans submarine warfare against our trading ships with France and Britain. If Wilson was going to be in the war he would try to unlink nationalistic disputes or ambitions.  Wilson's speech also lead to Vladimir Lenin's Decree on Peace. The Vladimir Lenin's Decree on Peace Takes Russia away from the war that did not work. The 14 points was aimed to all of the nations fighting in World War 1.

8 - French territories are to be freed and the invaded areas restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia Germany. By Alsace-Lorraine that has taken the peace of the world for fifty years should be righted. In Better terms it means evacuate all of the french territories and that includes Alsace-Lorraine. Alsace-Lorraine is an Imperial German territory.

9 - To change the frontier of Italy that is recognizable for all nationality.  It changes the Italian boundaries to other nationality can recognize them.

10 - Austria-Hungary will be protected and various national groups will be set free.

11 - The restore of Balkan nations and free access to the ocean for Serbia.

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