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Fourteen Points
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Fourteen Points
pl n
(Military) the principles expounded by President Wilson in 1918 as war aims of the US


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He revealed that he was willing to accept a proviso in the pending naval legislation that if the peace conference adopted some agreement to reduce armaments (the fourth of the Fourteen Points, "national armaments would be reduced"), he could postpone building contracts pending consultation with Congress.
Later, after the Treaty of Versailles had been hammered out--and Wilson's amateurish attempt at direct diplomacy was hammered pretty severely in the process--the Germans justly complained that they had been hoodwinked into the armistice by Wilson's promise to make the Fourteen Points the basis of a postwar settlement.
The Wilson administration printed 60 million copies of the Fourteen Points plan and distributed them around the world.
 
 
 
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