Wilson's 14 point plan was as follows:
1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
Not really acheived
2. 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.
Not achieved at that time, has more or less been achieved since.
3. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Not acheived
4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
Not acheived. There's always that catch - how low do I go before I feel insecure that someone else isn't as low as me and poses a threat?
5. 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 equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
not achieved. In fact, Ho Chi Minh came to Versailles to press this point and was ejected from the conference.
6. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their goodwill, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
Not acheived. In fact the US even sent troops to Vladivostok and Archangel to block the Bolsheviks from taking over.
7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.
Done
8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
done
9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality
Done but Italy wanted more land and did not really get it.
10. 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.
Done, but only by breaking them up into an Austria and a Hungary.
11. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
Kind of done - they broke up Austria-Hungarian Empire, but also created Yugoslavia and Czechoslavakia, neither of which was entirely what the ethnic groups who wanted self-determination really wanted.
12. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman [Turkish] Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule [i.e., Kurds, Arab peoples, Armenians and some Greeks] should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles [namely, the straits leading from the Black Sea approaches to international waters] should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
Done, more or less
13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Done.
14. 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.
Done, as the League of Nations was created, but it was really weak, and in fact the US never joined, USSR was barred from joining, and Germany wasn't allowed to join for a while, thus fatally hampering it. The idea was redone with the League of Nations.
2006-12-31 02:49:05
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answered by mr_ljdavid 4
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Wilsonianism within the Treaty of Versailles:
Consonance or Contradiction
http://faculty.virginia.edu/setear/students/sandytov/Text.htm
This section of the website details the full contents of the Peace Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 by Germany and the Allied powers at the Palace of Versailles. More……
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/versailles.htm
World War One
The Treaty of Versailles
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/versailles.htm
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/versailles.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist151/Peacemaking1919.html
Good luck
Kevin, Liverpool, England.
2006-12-31 09:25:10
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answered by Anonymous
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