How did Wilsons 14 points contribute to the Paris Peace Treaty?
It is the Treaty of Versailles which ended WW1, not the Paris Peace Treaty. Wilson first suggested that a peace between the warring powers could be gotten on his 14 points and the German’s accepted armistice believing that the basis of a treaty of peace would be the 14 points, however, the vindictive leaders of France, England and Italy refused to honor such a commitment. They wanted revenge upon Germany and Wilson was naive in his belief that he was the savior of peace and was so taken with his ideas for a League of Nations, that he willingly gave up on every one of his other 13 points for the agreement to include in the Treaty of Versailles the formation of the League of Nations. However, the League was doomed by its founders and the US rejected the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
