President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points During World War I

Nobody is sure how many people died or were injured during World War I, but it is estimated that ten million soldiers died from fighting in the war, and around 13 million civilians were killed from different things associated with the war. This all needed to be stopped and peace needed to be made. The Treaty of Versailles was written and signed in attempt to stop fighting. President Woodrow Wilson spent time writing an agreement in order to stop World War I known as the "Fourteen Points." Wilson's goal while writing this was to try to get everyone to stop fighting even if there was not a winner. The "Fourteen Points" as a whole, however were not used, but rather portions of it. After Wilson's idea was abandoned, the Allies came together to come up with a different agreement in order to end the devastation in Europe. The Allies included

These individuals are commonly known as the "Big Three" or "Big Four." David Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson were the three main people to have write the treaty. Sometimes, Vittorio Orlando is associated with them but doesn’t have as big of a role in the treaty as the other three. David Lloyd George was from Britain. David had an idea that he would be removed from office if he did not punish Germany harshly. He also did not want communism in Russia to spread to western Europe, so he helped in the writing of the treaty. Clemenceau from France did not want to let Germany off the hook for World War I. He wanted to punish them by taking their land, industry, and demilitarize them. Clemenceau was trying to make sure that Germany would pay for reparations done during the First World War as well as never again try to start another war. United States president, Woodrow Wilson, was the third writer. Wilson's main goal was to have peace between countries. He did not want any more wars, only