Inhalt: 14 Punkte Wilsons

Zusammenfassung: Ziele Wilsons:

• dauerhafter Weltfrieden
• Selbstebestimmungsrecht der Völker
• allgemeine Abrüstung
• Völkerbund

Das Deutsche Reich möchte einen Frieden aufgrund dieser 14 Punkte

Präsident Wilson schlägt am 8. Januar 1918 dem Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten folgende Punkte vor, die er als einzig mögliches Programm für einen Weltfrieden sieht.




Auswahl:

• II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
• III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers (...)
• IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety
• V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equtable claims of the government whose title is to be determined
• VI. the evacuation of all Russian territory (...)
• VII. Belgin, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored (...)
• VIII. All French territory should be freed (...)
• IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected (...)
• X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development (...)
• XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated (...)
• XII. (...) the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
• XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected (...)
• XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. (...)

Quelle: Commager, Henry Steele, Milton Cantor (ed.). Documents of American History. Volume II: Since 1898. New Jersey 1988.