Homework: Document Review WWI

​Summarized Points 

1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties

2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace

3. Equal trade conditions

4. Decrease armaments among all nations

5. Adjust colonial claims

6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence

7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored

8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories

9. Readjust Italian borders

10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination

11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro

12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles

13. Creation of an independent Polish state

14. Creation of the League of Nations

​It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by; so is also the day of secret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world. It is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose thoughts do not still linger in an age that is dead and gone, which makes it possible for every nation whose purposes are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to avow now or at any other time the objects it has in view.

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We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secured once for all against their recurrence. What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. The program of the world’s peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this:

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