14 Points-
Wilson wanted to promote "peace without victory" rather than just land grabbing like Russia's Vladimir Lenin. The 14 points helped propose his ideas of "peace with victory". The 14 points proposed noble ideals, no secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, colonialism, reduction in arms, self determination, and people who live in an area should determine their ethnicity, and how they are controlled. Wilson wanted to propose his idea so he went to the Paris Peace Conference himself to propose his ideas. At the Paris Peace Conference, the allies decided that they wanted to make Germany pay for starting the war. Reparations is money payed by the losers of the war to he winners, and the allies wanted Germany to pay reparations.Unfortunately for Wilson, his ideas weren't popular with the allies.
Self Determination-
Self Determination was the idea that people should be able to decide what kind of government they want. This led to the creation of new states but also created questions of if the countries would achieve statehood. After the war, Self Determination was not applied consistently, and Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were created. Some countries were "given" to countries based on the ethnicity, and some border changes meant certain groups now lived in another country. The middle east was completely disregarded and the people that lived there.Today, we are still feeling effects because of the land grabbing.
League of Nations-
The League of Nations was a world organization, created by Wilson, where countries could gather and peacefully solve their problems. Ultimately, it failed because Wilson, decided to not join. Without the U.S., the league of nations can't keep peace and so congress decided to not ratify the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that proposed the idea of the League of Nations, and it wasn't passed. The treaty also set ground work for World War II because it blamed Germany for the war: there were Reparations to Germany, Territorial causes, and Disarmament occurred.
Wilson wanted to promote "peace without victory" rather than just land grabbing like Russia's Vladimir Lenin. The 14 points helped propose his ideas of "peace with victory". The 14 points proposed noble ideals, no secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, colonialism, reduction in arms, self determination, and people who live in an area should determine their ethnicity, and how they are controlled. Wilson wanted to propose his idea so he went to the Paris Peace Conference himself to propose his ideas. At the Paris Peace Conference, the allies decided that they wanted to make Germany pay for starting the war. Reparations is money payed by the losers of the war to he winners, and the allies wanted Germany to pay reparations.Unfortunately for Wilson, his ideas weren't popular with the allies.
Self Determination-
Self Determination was the idea that people should be able to decide what kind of government they want. This led to the creation of new states but also created questions of if the countries would achieve statehood. After the war, Self Determination was not applied consistently, and Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were created. Some countries were "given" to countries based on the ethnicity, and some border changes meant certain groups now lived in another country. The middle east was completely disregarded and the people that lived there.Today, we are still feeling effects because of the land grabbing.
League of Nations-
The League of Nations was a world organization, created by Wilson, where countries could gather and peacefully solve their problems. Ultimately, it failed because Wilson, decided to not join. Without the U.S., the league of nations can't keep peace and so congress decided to not ratify the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that proposed the idea of the League of Nations, and it wasn't passed. The treaty also set ground work for World War II because it blamed Germany for the war: there were Reparations to Germany, Territorial causes, and Disarmament occurred.