Wilson's greatest challenge as being the president of the United States was World War One. Two years after Woodrow Wilson was elected president, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Hungary, which started to brew up World War One. Woodrow Wilson believed that there was no need for America to get involved, and if they took …show more content…
Basically, wilson's idea was a strategy of world peace that would be used to make negotiations for peace after WWI the speech was generated by a group of men called “The Inquiry”, The Inquiry is a group of 150 political scientists, they studied allied and American political patterns all around the globe. Over time the team collected around 2,000 reports. In the actual speech Wilson described what he believed caused World War One, including secret treaties and lack of military defense. Wilson made it clear in his speech that world peace was his end goal. he proposed removing the economic barriers between the nations,and a worldwide security system for all nations. Wilson's main target, his allies; Georges Clemenceau, a French Statesman, David Lloyd George,British liberal politician, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, an Italian political figure, did not believe in Wilson's far stretched plan for overall world peace (President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points). Even more specifically, the speech was organized into 2 broad categories and one final, separate point about The League Of Nations.
Eight of the fourteen points treated specific territorial issues among the combatant nations. Five of the other six concerned general principles for a peaceful world: open covenants (i.e. treaties or agreements) openly arrived at; freedom of the seas;