Fourteen Points, The

noun

1. a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.

Example Sentences

Yet liberalism survived this maelstrom and emerged stronger than before, with Wilson’s fourteen points, the League of Nations, and the Roaring Twenties.

From The New Yorker

He is famous for his Fourteen Points, the League of Nations and a certain kind of intrusive internationalism now known as Wilsonianism.

From Salon

It then launched into a recapitulation of 1914-18, touching off the Allies' hamstringing of Woodrow Wilson's famed Fourteen Points, the Allied occupation of the German Ruhr and the Franco-Soviet Pact of this year.

From Time Magazine Archive

The armistice terms violated the spirit if not the letter of the fourteen points; the Peace Treaty scattered them to the winds.

From Project Gutenberg

Shantung, Poland, little nations, pogroms, plebiscites, Ireland, steel strikes, red armies, Fourteen Points, The Truth About This, The Real Story of That, the League of Nations, the riots in Berlin, in Dublin, Milan, Paris, London, Chicago; secret treaties, pacts, betrayals, Kolchak—an incomprehensible muddle of newspaper headlines shrieked from morning to morning and said nothing.

From Project Gutenberg