Wilson’s Fourteen Points and their purposes

• laid out in January 1919

	Don’t be too harsh on Germany	Strengthen democracy in defeated countries	Give self-determination to small countries that used to be part of the European empires	International cooperation
No secret treaties				✅
Free access to the seas in peacetime so wartime				✅
Free trade between countries				✅
All countries to work towards disarmnament	✅			✅
Colonies to have a say in their future		✅	✅
German troops to leave Russia		✅
Independence for Belgium		✅	✅
France to regain Alsace-Lorraine
Frontier between Austria and Italy to be adjusted		✅	✅
Self-determination for the peoples of eastern Europe		✅	✅
Serbia to have access to the sea		✅
Self-determination for the people in the Turkish empire			✅
Poland to become an independent state with access to the sea			✅
League of Nations to be set up				✅