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President Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points were his proposal for peace terms for following the end of World War I.

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Woodrow Wilson 's Fourteen Points : A (rejected ) path to peace

On the 8th of January 1918 , then United States President Woodrow Wilson declared his plan for peace after the aftermath of the First World War (U .S . News and World Report . The outline of the report was prepared by Colonel Edward M . House , a long time confidante of Wilson (U .S . News House 's group , collectively known as The Inquiry , was tasked in assimilating and evaluating both the Allied nations ' position and that of American policy that were to

crop up in the peace summit with the other nations (U .S . News . In the speech , Wilson delved into what he believed as the prime triggers of the world conflagration (U .S . News

Wilson called for a decrease in the arms of countries , ending clandestine agreements and adjudication of the colonial issues among the nations , and an open seas ' policy (U .S . News . But his plans were meet with heavy resistance , sometimes outright hostility (Michael Streich . In his response to the Wilson proposals , French President Georges Clemenceau became theological in his resistance (Streich . He averred that even if God did give the Ten Commandments , they were rejected by man , and the Fourteen Points were likely to meet the same fate (Streich . The interests of the Allies confirmed the rejection that would befall the proposal

The Allies rejected the proposal in that they were more interested in regaining what they had lost to Germany during the war (U...
