World War I is considered one of the most deadliest war in history. It happened between 1914 to 1918 and sometimes is known as the Great war. It was fought in Europe, but many countries around the world was involved. The United States joined the war on April 6, 1917, due to “Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare (Hickman,1).” As result from the bloody war, the countries suffered from the lost of numerous casualties. Therefore the countries wanted to blame someone. When the fighting ended, the countries wanted to negotiated a peace treaty where Germany gets all the blame. The United States president, Woodrow Wilson, seeing this happened, he decided to come up with a plan where the idea is peace and not a punishment for Germany. In order to have a long-term peace, president Wilson designed a plan called the fourteen points plan, which played an important role in reshaping Europe and the world. When Woodrow Wilson came with the plan his main goal was to achieve justice to everyone. To accomplish that he divided the plan into three different
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President Wilson was confident with his plan, so he brought to the conference. Once the other leaders listen to it they were having doubts about it. Some leaders were hoping to gain land and money from this treaty. They also wanted to punish Germany and make them pay, “demanded stiff penalties for Germany” but Wilson’s plan didn't include any of those things (Staff).Wilson’s whole plan failed but it was the basis for the new treaty called Treaty of Versailles. The treaty only included 5 out of fourteen of Wilson points. They were a creation of League of Nations, countries would receive their independence, Poland would be created and no seas blockades. The treaty did little to advance Wilson's quest to establish freedom of the seas, free trade between nations, and military disarmament”
President Wilson was confident with his plan, so he brought to the conference. Once the other leaders listen to it they were having doubts about it. Some leaders were hoping to gain land and money from this treaty. They also wanted to punish Germany and make them pay, “demanded stiff penalties for Germany” but Wilson’s plan didn't include any of those things (Staff).Wilson’s whole plan failed but it was the basis for the new treaty called Treaty of Versailles. The treaty only included 5 out of fourteen of Wilson points. They were a creation of League of Nations, countries would receive their independence, Poland would be created and no seas blockades. The treaty did little to advance Wilson's quest to establish freedom of the seas, free trade between nations, and military disarmament”