Courtesy: Library of Congress Woodrow ... his war aims in his famous Fourteen Points speech, with the last point calling for the creation of a League of Nations. At the Paris Peace Conference ...

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8 January 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson today outlined, in a speech to Congress, the ‘programme for the world's peace’ as seen by the United States. It consists of 14 main points ...

December: Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton ... treaty no longer includes most of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, his plan for the League of Nations remains intact. Senator Henry Cabot ...

The president challenged Senator Harding, the Republican candidate, to hold a referendum on the attitude of the United States to the League of Nations ... supporters, Wilson’s laying down ...