Fourteen Points

(noun)

A set of goals laid out in a speech by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.

Related Terms

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Paris Peace Conference 1919
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

The Fourteen Points was a speech given by President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.

Related Terms

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Paris Peace Conference 1919
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

A speech delivered by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address assured the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.

Related Terms

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Paris Peace Conference 1919
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

The Fourteen Points was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and to outline a postwar blueprint for global peace.

Related Terms

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Paris Peace Conference 1919
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

The Fourteen Points was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.

Related Terms

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Paris Peace Conference 1919
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

The Fourteen Points was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and to lay out a vision for global postwar peace.

Related Terms

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Paris Peace Conference 1919
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

Examples of Fourteen Points in the following topics:

  • Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Wilson's Fourteen Points

    • The Fourteen Points could be simplified to a core list of agreements and goals for all participating nations:
    • The Fourteen Points were accepted by France and Italy on November 1, 1918.
    • The Treaty of Versailles had little to do with the Fourteen Points and was never ratified by the U.S.
    • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech outlined his goals for postwar cooperation.
    • Summarize the key points made in Wilson's Fourteen Points speech, and the reaction of Germany, Britain, France and other nations.
  • The Progressive Stake in the War

    • While many historians disagree over the exact dates of the Progressive Era, most see World War I as a globalized expression of the American movement, with Wilson's fight for the League of Nations envisioned in his Fourteen Points as its climax.
    • The Fourteen Points was a speech given by Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.
  • The Paris Peace Conference

    • The Fourteen Points Wilson proffered in a 1918 speech to the U.S.
    • Yet Wilson's attempts to gain acceptance of his Fourteen Points ultimately failed after France and Britain refused to adopt some specific points and its core principles, although they tried to appease the American president by consenting to the establishment of his League of Nations.
    • Several of the Fourteen Points conflicted with other European powers, as well.
    • The United States hoped to establish a more liberal and diplomatic world, as stated in the Fourteen Points, where democracy, sovereignty, liberty, and self-determination would be respected.
  • Liberty and Property

    • The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest.
  • Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

    • The greatest model of these ideals was Wilson’s Fourteen Points speech, which eventually became the basis for an end to World War I and the establishment of a League of Nations.
    • The Fourteen Points was a speech given by Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.
    • Thanks to Wilson and the Fourteen Points, the U.S. was one of the “Big Four” nations – along with Britain, France and Italy – that led the negotiations resulting in the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Postwar Isolationism

    • Despite common reservations about the United States breaking its tradition of staying away from global entanglements, in January 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gave his famous Fourteen Points speech, in which he delineated principles for world peace that were to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
    • One of the points proposed in the speech was the establishment of the League of Nations -  an international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
    • The Fourteen Points speech was the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I.
  • The League of Nations

    • President Woodrow Wilson, who first unveiled the idea in his famed speech to Congress on January 18, 1918 outlining the Fourteen Points, his blueprint for global postwar peace and diplomacy.
    • House, enthusiastically promoted the idea of the league as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of World War I, and the creation of the league became the centerpiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.
  • The Milgram Experiment: The Power of Authority

    • The naïve participants drew slips of paper to determine their roles, but unknown to them, both slips said "teacher," and the confederate always claimed to have the slip that read "learner. " At this point, the "teacher" and "learner" were separated into different rooms where they could communicate but not see each other.
    • At this point, many people indicated their desire to stop the experiment and check on the learner.
    • Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior-year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers.
    • At some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment, some saying they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.
  • Human Axial Skeleton

    • Fourteen facial bones form the face, provide cavities for the sense organs (eyes, mouth, and nose), protect the entrances to the digestive and respiratory tracts, and serve as attachment points for facial muscles .
    • The vertebral column, or spinal column, surrounds and protects the spinal cord, supports the head, and acts as an attachment point for the ribs and muscles of the back and neck.
    • It also provides support for the shoulder girdles and upper limbs, and serves as the attachment point for the diaphragm, muscles of the back, chest, neck, and shoulders.
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