On 8 January 1918 Woodrow Wilson, the president of the USA, made a speech to the US Congress in which he outlined his reasons for entering the First World War on the side of the Allies. Although the USA had joined the war the year before, Wilson was keen to outline why the USA was fighting. In particular he wanted to disassociate the USA from the ‘imperialistic’ powers fighting in Europe (even though he was allied to some of them). Wilson condensed his ideas into Fourteen Points that he believed would act as the basis for a long-lasting postwar peace.
An extract from A Short History of the First World War by Gary Sheffield:
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