Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

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At the peace conference at Versailles, Wilson tried with mixed success to enact his Fourteen Points. He was forced to accept British, French and Italian demands for financial revenge: Germany would be made to pay reparations that amounted to the total cost of the war for the Allies and admit guilt in humiliating fashion. Wilson appealed for Self-Determination but the rest of the nations had already signed secret treaties of conquest which saw Britain and France gain in the Middle East and Japan gain in Asia. He used self-determination as a tool and allies made independent a ring of hostile nations around the new Soviet Union - Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In addition, in this Conference, the map of Europe was redrawn as Stunk of