The Fourteen Points

• Read over points 1-5. Write down 1 sentence for how each of these 5 points caused a problem in WWI.

• No secret diplomacy: Alliance system caused war.• Freedom of the seas: Lusitania, Unrestricted Sub.

Warfare.• Remove tariffs, free trade: Britain blockaded

German goods. (Turnip Winter, 1915)• Reduce armaments: new weapons of WWI.• Adjust colonial disputes; try to end colonialism:

Imperialism that caused unrest in the Balkans and elsewhere.

• Wilson’s most vital point…• He felt that a world organization could oversee

all of the international problems that the war created.

Attendees at the Paris Peace Conference:

• Woodrow Wilson, U.S.A.• David Lloyd George, Great Britain• Georges Clemenceau, France• Vittorio Orlando, Italy

known as “The Big Four”

Who is missing?

Results: The Treaty of Versailles

• Germany is punished by being forced to take the entire blame of the war and pay reparations to the allied countries.

• Most of the 14 points are discarded, including the first 5 and #12.

• Wilson was very reluctant to agree to these terms, but did so because the League of Nations’ approval.

Treaty of Versailles continued…

• Sometimes referred to as “the politics of hatred.”

• One of the major causes for WWII.