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**National Self Determination**
=== The idea that the borders of countries should be based on ethnicity and national identity. A group of people who feel they can become a nation should be allowed to have their own country. President Wilson and other supporters of national self determination believed that when borders are not founded on national disputes, border conflicts will occur and nations are more likely to go war and resolve them. === === One principle of national self-determination meant that no nation should be allowed to keep territory taken from another nation. Wilsons fourteen points required the central powers to evacuate all countries invaded during the war. Wilson wanted Alsace-Lorraine that Germany had taken and restored to France. ===