"The Fourteen Point Peace Programme of US President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was presented to Congress on 8 January 1918 and outlined a new world order that would hopefully avoid another disaster like the still ongoing First World War (1914-18). Aiming to persuade Germany and its allies to seek an armistice and achieve lasting world peace, the points in the list stated there should be freedom of the seas, free trade, disarmament, a redrawing of the map of Europe based on the principle of national self-determination,"
"President Wilson identified certain causes of WWI he wanted never to replicate: self-interested and secretive diplomacy, the repression of minority groups within empires and larger states, and autocratic regimes ignoring their own people's wishes. A new international organization was required that would eradicate these three diseases of world diplomacy and champion instead democracy, self-determination, and openness. By working together, a collective security and environment of debate and negotiation could be achieved, where no war between nations would even start. That was the hope."
Presented to the US Congress on 8 January 1918, the Fourteen Points set principles for a new world order intended to prevent future global war. The program called for open diplomacy without secret treaties, freedom of the seas, removal of economic barriers, arms reductions, impartial settlement of colonial claims with respect for subject populations, and territorial adjustments based on national self-determination. The plan demanded evacuation and restoration of occupied territories and sought autonomous development for peoples of multiethnic empires. It aimed to persuade Germany and its allies to seek an armistice and proposed an international assembly to secure collective security, democracy, and peaceful negotiation.
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