Fourteen+Points

Fourteen Points On January 8th, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of congress, highlighting the reasons that congress should support the U.S. becoming a part of the Treaty of Versailles. Though he was not sucessfuol in this goal he was right in the end when America's failure to sign the treaty lead to being a major cause of WWII. [] On the League of Nations, speech given by U.S. Secretary of War Newton Baker in 1919. Explaining the importance of a League of Nations to Europe's future.