LAD # 25-Wilson's 14 Points

The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by Wilson of the US to a joint secession of the US Congress on January 8, 1918. In his speech, Wilson intended to set out a blueprint for lasting peace in Europe after WWI. The idealism displayed in the speech gave Wilson a position of moral leadership among the Allies, and encouraged the Central Powers to surrender.
The speech ended WWI, but the Fourteen Points became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and documented in the Treaty of Versailles. However, only three of the points were adopted completely in the post-war reconstruction of Europe, and the United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson felt the onyl way to attain peace is to follow the fourteen points.