On January 8, 1918, President Thomas “Woodrow” Wilson the 28th President of the United States addressed Congress with a historical speech. The delivery of this speech occurred at the Joint Session and this address is part of the document records of the World War I Archives. President Wilson outlined what is known as his Fourteen Points, which he believes were the correction that needed to be made in order to complete his plan of everlasting peace.
President Wilson gave a brief history of the conference that was held at Brest-Litovsk, between the representatives of the Russia and the Central Powers. Nevertheless to understand the speech by President Wilson, you have to know the history leading up to this point of World War I.
World War I began on July 28, 1914, but United States of America did not join in until April 1917. President Wilson did not want to be a part of the war and strongly believed that America should be neutral. This changed with Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare and the sinking of a ship with Americans on board when the United States was neutral in the war. …show more content…
These Points were Wilson’s way of offering the world a resolution to world peace, but there was so much more to this plan. This plan would have given the world the ability for other nations to rise up, it also laid out the boundaries, freedom of the seas, removal of barriers in trade, stripping any country of weapons so another war could not started, and rearranging the balance of power. The last Point was the most important to President Wilson, because he felt that the creation of "a general association of nations" would promote global cooperation to have peace. This plan did not call for any punishment for the Central Powers or declaring a winner, which he stated with his postwar settlement as "peace without
President Wilson gave a brief history of the conference that was held at Brest-Litovsk, between the representatives of the Russia and the Central Powers. Nevertheless to understand the speech by President Wilson, you have to know the history leading up to this point of World War I.
World War I began on July 28, 1914, but United States of America did not join in until April 1917. President Wilson did not want to be a part of the war and strongly believed that America should be neutral. This changed with Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare and the sinking of a ship with Americans on board when the United States was neutral in the war. …show more content…
These Points were Wilson’s way of offering the world a resolution to world peace, but there was so much more to this plan. This plan would have given the world the ability for other nations to rise up, it also laid out the boundaries, freedom of the seas, removal of barriers in trade, stripping any country of weapons so another war could not started, and rearranging the balance of power. The last Point was the most important to President Wilson, because he felt that the creation of "a general association of nations" would promote global cooperation to have peace. This plan did not call for any punishment for the Central Powers or declaring a winner, which he stated with his postwar settlement as "peace without