What Is The Purpose Of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

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In January 1918, America president Woodrow Wilson made a most famous speech in his life. The content of the Fourteen Points speech is about the maintenance of world peace and national security and his speech has some point solve the problem of the European territory, and international relations will be America's foreign policy in the future. “The First World War grimly illustrated to Wilson the unavoidable relationship between international stability and American national security.”(Wilson Delivers) United State consider themselves bound to the management of world affairs, mediation war and participating in peacekeeping operations. At the same time, the most significant points of the speech is no secret treaties, freedom of the seas and establishing

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