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Fourteen Points speech to Congress

President Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points address to a joint session of Congress, outlining principles for a just peace after World War I including self-determination, free trade, open diplomacy, and a League of Nations.

The Fourteen Points articulated U.S. war aims that shaped Allied negotiations and postwar diplomacy and provided the foundational proposal for the League of Nations and the postwar international order.

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