Fourteen Points

British  

plural noun

1. the principles expounded by President Wilson in 1918 as war aims of the US

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Fourteen Points Cultural  

1. Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress in early 1918. They included public negotiations between nations, freedom of navigation, free trade, self-determination for several nations involved in the war, and the establishment of an association of nations to keep the peace. The “association of nations” Wilson mentioned became the League of Nations. (See also Treaty of Versailles.)

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Example Sentences

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.

From Washington Times • Jan. 8, 2021

Two months after Thanksgiving he would issue his Fourteen Points that he hoped would shape the peace that followed what became known as the Great War, themes that he presaged in his Thanksgiving proclamation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2020

Wilson’s Fourteen Points had been widely distributed in Germany, and Germans saw their abandonment as a betrayal.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2018

When Wilson proposed his Fourteen Points after World War I, the French Premier Georges Clémenceau mocked them, noting that “God himself had only 10.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2016

Secret information sent to me from the Entente countries seemed to suggest that the Fourteen Points were decidedly not drawn up in agreement with England, France and Italy.

From In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf