The Fourteen Points were proposals announced by President Woodrow Wilson on 8 January 1918 in a speech to the Congress, aimed to end World War I.
The points aimed to establish a national right of self-determination, which led to border changes in many of the great powers, as well as the establishment of a number of new states in Europe after the war, such as Hungary and Finland. Nevertheless, the victor did not take into account ethnic differences in many of the new areas they now established, which would later lead to conflicts, such as in Yugoslavia. Furthermore, several million Germans also became citizens of the Czechoslovak Sudetenland, which later became a source of conflict in the run-up to World War II.
