Woodrow Wilson 14 Points Analysis

As the war was in its final moments of finishing Wood Wilson had pointed out 14 points that could potentially lead everyone to peace and finally end world war one. In Woodrow’s Wilsons’ he included that there shouldn’t be any secret treaties between nations due to the fact that having a secret alliance could potentially trigger a war. He also included self-determination multiple times in his 14 points. Ultimately Woodrow Wilson wanted the people to be able to have freedom of where they would live despite their religion or where they came from. These 14 points helped create the Treaty of Versailles Woodrow also suggested to form a group between the nations to be able to form mutual agreements between one another so a war like this won’t happen …show more content…
Germany was reduced to only having 100,000 men in their military, they were stripped of their advanced battle ships, submarines and aircrafts. They were also forced to pay reparations to each nation that lost a lot in the war, those reparations lasted for ten years before Germany finally paid up what they had to. Germany also suffered a great deal in land, as many of the nations like France and Britain took over their land Germany’s colonies ceased to exist. Losing their colonies had a big blow to Germany’s economy, these harsh demands that were made were based off on what the nations felt was right. Every single nation that was in war at the beginning in world war one blamed Germany for starting the war, so these conditions were what the nations thought Germany could do to repay the damage “they”