The Fourteen Points were a series of principles defended by President Woodrow Wilson on a speech to the US Congress in 1918. The Fourteen Points aimed to establish peace regulations and end WWI and avoid another war in the future. The fourteen points are:
Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at
Freedom of the seas
The removal so far as possible of all economic barriers
The reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety
Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims
The evacuation of all Russian territory
The evacuation and restoration of Belgium
The liberation of France and return to her of Alsace and Lorraine
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy to conform to clearly recognisable lines of nationality
The peoples of Austria-Hungary should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development
Evacuation of occupation forces from Romania, Serbia and Montenegro; Serbia should be accorded free and secure access to the sea
Autonomous development for the non-Turkish peoples of the Ottoman empire; free passage of the Dardanelles to the ships and commerce of all nations
An independent Poland to be established, with free and secure access to the sea
A general association of nations to be formed to guarantee to its members political independence and territorial integrity (the genesis of the League of Nations)
