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    WILSON AND THE 14 POINTS TO PEACE

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    This paper examines the idealism and socialist tendencies of President Woodrow Wilson through his 14 Points. The paper discusses the points, as well as the League of Nations, using these historic events as evidence of Wilson's belief in the goodness inherent of mankind. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

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    of Nations following the end of World War I. The league, which implied that all nations would be equally responsible for jurisdiction and justice throughout the world, was just one  example of Wilsons idealism; an idealism that helped him promote throughout his political and professorial career. It was, however, Wilsons Fourteen Points that perhaps marked him as an idealistic, if  somewhat na?ve president, one who believed that mans goodness would essentially outweigh mans greed. The Fourteen Points, presented by Wilson to a  joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918, was an idealistic plea for peace as well as an instrument for propaganda ("Fourteen Points"). In addition to acting as a way  to soothe wounds that had been opened because of World War I, the Fourteen Points was to also "stimulate moral fervor at home ("Fourteen Points"). As such, the speech made  Wilson a moral leader of the Allies of the so-called "Great War," even while it dismissed treaties that had already been made by the Allies ("Fourteen Points"). Following the Armistice  and the Treaty of Versailles, in fact, many of the original points were diminished or defeated ("Fourteen Points"). The Fourteen Points were  a reaction to a publication put out by the Bolshevik revolutionary government in Russia regarding secret treaties of the allies ("Woodrow Wilson"), and as an attempt to support Russias demand  that this country, which was in the middle of its own revolution, keep various parcels of land in exchange for peaceful co-existence with the remainder of the world (President Woodrow  Wilsons Fourteen Points). Throughout the entire speech, in fact, it seems as though Wilsons ideology more supported Russias views then that of the "Central Empire" i.e., the Allies, leading many 

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