Read the following four points from President Wilson's Fourteen Points speech given in 1918. What was the overall purpose of the
Fourteen Points, and why did he include the type of proposals listed in the passage? What impact did these ideas have on the rest of the world? X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.
XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
