Timeline Tuesday 8 January 1918

Events on Tuesday 8 January 1918 2

• 1918 The Fourteen Points Washington, United States Wilson set out war aims based on self-determination, open diplomacy and a league of nations. Germany would later argue it had surrendered on these terms and been given something else.
• 1918 Wilson's Fourteen Points Speech Woodrow Wilson outlines postwar peace principles US President Woodrow Wilson presented a fourteen-point program to Congress as a blueprint for ending World War I and securing lasting peace. The points called for open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, self-determination for nations, and a League of Nations. They later shaped the Paris Peace Conference, though many were diluted in the final Treaty of Versailles.