1. WWI Outcomes

2. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Treaties—
Trade—
Militarism—
Sovereignty—
Territory—
Peace—

3. Treaties
No Secret Treaties

4. Trade Freedom of the seas (No worries about u-boat attacks) Free Trade
Fair Trade?

5. Militarism
Armies/weapons reduced to “defense only”

6. Sovereignty (Self-Government)
Respect the right for all people to determine their own government--in colonial areas as well as independent countries.
Colonies had just participated in the war, so they deserved sovereignty in return.

7. Territory
Russia gets territory back that it gave up to Germany in Treaty of Brest Litovsk
(Encourage Russia to establish democracy)
Belgium gets all territory back
French territory returned (from Germany)
Italy’s borders determined by ethnicity
Austria-Hungary remains free of German influence

8. Territory Balkan Peninsula—negotiate borders
Ottoman Empire gets broken up into Turkey + small countries based on ethnicity
Poland gets independence
Establish new balance of power
Borders should recognize ethnicities/nationalities and rivalries between nationalities

9. Peace
League of Nations to ensure a “fair and lasting peace”
Justice

10. Treaty of Versailles War Guilt Clause Armed forces limited in Germany
Reparations
The United States did NOT sign the Treaty of Versailles—signed a separate treaty with Germany. The US did NOT join the League of Nations.

11. Other outcomes Ottoman Empire was broken up
League of Nations was created
Mandate System

12. Mandates
Former colonies/ territories of Germany and the Ottoman Empire were put under the control of the Allied Powers until they were ready to govern themselves
Mandates allowed the Allied Powers to maintain control of colonial areas AND support their declarations that gaining territory was not their aim in WWI.