WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Trench Warfare
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Fourteen Points
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Reparations
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U-Boats
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fourteenth point proposed what was to become the League of Nations to guarantee the “political independence and territorial integrity [of] great and small states alike.” Though Wilson’s idealism pervades the Fourteen Points, he also had more practical objectives in mind.
Detailed explanation-3: -The problem was that Wilson’s vision did not take into account the claims of France and Britain and their allies. Its most noted legacy was in the establishment of the League of Nations (although unlike Wilson’s ideal this was separate from the peace treaties and initially Germany was not admitted).