Woodrow Wilson 14 Points In The First World War

During the turn of the 20th century, there was period of worldwide transition and worldwide immigration. The mass immigration to the united states coupled with the powered keg which was Europe, all seemed to explode during the beginning of the first world war. People didn’t realize truthfully, how big this first world war would be and how “great” it seemed to be to previous modern day wars. Unification's in all over European countries left Europe to be in the mess that they were in during this time. The old vs the new, and the various largely entangled alliances that formed previous to the war. The “great” war as they called it right after it ended, turned Europe into something in which the political systems turned their heads upside down.

The United States wasn’t in the start of the first world war however its impact this affect many of the situations in the aftermath and Wilson`s fourteen points show a giant indicator of how much the United States was helping to figure out a plan for Europe, specifically the countries in the Allies and the Central Powers. Many of his points showed for a democratic process for the countries to turn to when trying to figure out their domestic issues. I can see that Wilson is trying to from other governments (the Ex-Empires) into more democratic situation and to form more of a capitalist society instead of the repressive empires before. Although Wilson didn’t write the paper before he knew of what the war was going to end up like, he used his idealism to try to show what the world (and the various countries fighting in the war could look like if they would just follow these democratic

Instead of just blaming one country or another, it seemed to me, like he was trying to sort out the various situations in which the countries could be put into the same situations that they were currently. Fixing boarders, giving people more freedom and just overall figuring out where countries could see themselves after the war was ending. The war was bloody and horrible for many people and I could see if people stuck to this that possibly they could learn to understand and learn to get over the situation and turn tides to the good sides. Free trade, open agreements, democracy and self-determination were all main points in his fourteen points and with those overall a country to figure out where it wanted to go as a country without ending up in another bloody