Wilson's Fourteen Points LAD #25

President Wilson listed his fourteen points in a speech given to congress. The speech gave Wilson a position of moral and fair leadership among the european allies as he did not want to punish the surrendering Central Powers. Wilson began the address by stating that the terms that the Germans gave to the Russians were unacceptable as the central powers told Russia that they could have peace while maintaining freedom but in return they would lose all the land that the central powers had occupied during the war. Wilsons point reflect his idea that peace should be made fairly to not make enemies for the future while maintaing liberty. Wilsons points stated that treaties and agreements between countries should be made public, freedom of the seas must be maintained, any barriers of trade that exist in europe should be taken down, protection of soveriegnty and self determination and several other poitns that dealt with maintaing democracy and freedom for all nations in the world.