The Fourteen Points were a statement of principles for ending the First World War, laid out by US President Woodrow Wilson in an address to Congress. They called for open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, free trade, the reduction of armaments and a fair settlement of colonial claims. Several points dealt with the redrawing of European borders on the principle of national self-determination, including independence for Poland. The last proposed a general association of nations, an idea that led to the League of Nations. Germany accepted them as a basis for the armistice, but at the Paris Peace Conference Britain and France pushed for harsher terms, and the United States Senate later refused to join the League.
Before and after
- 1918Publication of Mer Hayrenik
- 1918Founding of Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- from January 1918 to December 19201918–1920 flu pandemic
- from 1918 to 1922Japanese intervention in Siberia
- 8 January 1918Fourteen Points
- 15 January 1918Birth of Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 20 January 1918Battle of Imbros
- 26 January 1918Birth of Nicolae Ceaușescu
- from 27 January 1918 to 15 May 1918Finnish Civil War
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- from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940Winter War
- from 22 June 1941 to 7 May 1945Eastern Front
- from 22 June 1941 to 5 December 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 7 December 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
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