WW1

The Fourteen Points ===January 1918, President Wilson presents plan to Congress and explains the goals of the United States in the war. The following year he arrives in Paris to introduce the Fourteen Points. President Wilson believed this plan would implement and establish peace in Europe. The Fourteen Points were founded on the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities.=== ===The first five points addressed to eliminate the causes of war through free trade, freedom of the seas, disarmament, an impartial adjustment of colonial claims, and open diplomacy instead of secret agreements. The next eight points addressed the right of National Self Determination. ===