Question

Which two phrases best describe the underlying objectives of President Wilson's Fourteen Points?

Answer 1

• to form a lasting peace with just treaty terms
• to establish trade barriers as an economic means of punishing aggressive countries.

Then-president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, made a proposal that aimed to resolve the issue definitively. For him, it was more important to seal peace and prevent another war than to point out punishments for losers and compensations for winners. In other words, the US president embraced a kind of "peace without winners."