Western Civilization II / Unit 14 WC2 1326 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wilson's Fourteen Points
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The idea
In January nineteen eighteen Wilson published fourteen points: open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, free trade, arms reduction, colonial claims weighed with their peoples' interests, Belgium restored, Alsace-Lorraine returned, Italy's frontiers by nationality, autonomy for Austria-Hungary's and the Ottomans' peoples, an independent Poland, and a general association of nations.
In practice
Self-determination, the principle beneath the list.
Where people slip
Witness-built and read at 1334.
Your place on the trail
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