1918 Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points

One hundred years ago, on January 8, 1918, US President Woodrow Wilson presented Congress with the "14 Points" - the principles of a peace treaty that was supposed to end the First World War. The document provided for freedom of navigation on the seas outside territorial waters, the elimination of customs barriers, the correction of borders in favor of the Entente powers and the granting of the broadest autonomy to the peoples of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. The "14 points" also proclaimed the "principle of nationality" in determining state boundaries and the need to create a world organization - the future League of Nations.