Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was the or done as a reaction to a impeach of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in positioning to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims in addition to peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. However, his main Allied colleagues Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, together with Vittorio Orlando of Italy were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.
The United States had joined the secret treaties proposed between the Allies. Wilson's speech also responded to Vladimir Lenin's Decree on Peace of November 1917, immediately after the October Revolution in 1917.
The speech offered by Wilson took numerous domestic progressive ideas and translated them into foreign policy free trade, open agreements, democracy and self-determination. Three days earlier United Kingdom Prime Minister Lloyd George had made a speech establish out the UK's war aims which bore some similarity to Wilson's speech but which proposed reparations be paid by the Central Powers and which was more vague in its promises to the non-Turkish subjects of the Ottoman Empire. The Fourteen Points in the speech were based on the research of the Inquiry, a team of approximately 150 advisers led by foreign-policy adviser Edward M. House, into the topics likely to arise in the anticipated peace conference.