The Fourteen Points

Examples of The Fourteen Points in the following topics:

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • The Fourteen Points was a speech by Woodrow Wilson in January 1918 outlining the aims of the Great War that became the blueprint for postwar peace negotiations.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • The Progressive Era in the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s, was a time of social activism and political reform in response to vast modernization.
  • 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.
  • Although the U.S. entered the war in 1917, three years into the fighting, there had been very little planning or even recognition of the problems the European Allies faced in maintaining the capacity to wage war.
  • The Fourteen Points was a speech given by Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.
  • Delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany, the speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

• 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.
  • In the Pacific, Japan gained Germany's islands north of the equator (the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Palau Islands) and Kiautschou in China.
  • 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.

• Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

  • Army nor the Navy was ready for the war already engulfing large parts of the globe.
  • 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.
  • Delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany, the speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
  • 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 attention of the country focused now mostly on addressing the problems of the national economy.
  • Ultimately, the ideological rift between the ideals of the United States and the goals of the fascist powers empowered the interventionist argument.

• The League of Nations

  • The league was the brainchild of U.S.
  • 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 Paris Peace Conference approved the proposal to create the League of Nations in January 1919, and the league was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • The most conspicuous absence was the United States.

• Liberty and Property

  • The Stamp Act stirred activity among colonial representatives to denounce what they saw as the disregard of colonial rights by the Crown.
  • The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest.
  • The Stamp Act had been passed by the British Parliament to help pay off some of the debt from its various wars, including the French and Indian War fought in part to protect the American colonies.
  • A direct result of the publishing of the Virginia Resolves was a growing public anger over the Stamp Act.
  • Later, Edmund Burke linked the resolves with the beginning of the opposition to the Stamp Act that would contribute to the American Revolution.

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

• Human Axial Skeleton

  • The axial skeleton forms the central axis of the human body and includes the bones of the skull, the ossicles of the middle ear, the hyoid bone of the throat, the vertebral column, and the thoracic cage (ribcage) .
  • The bones of the skull support the structures of the face and protect the brain .
  • 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.

• 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.
  • The teacher began by reading the list of word pairs to the learner.
  • 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.