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? ✔ Wilson hoped to avoid secret treaties between countries.
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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. |
? ✔ Wilson hoped to avoid civilian casualties and respect international waters.
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Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war... |
? ✔ Wilson hoped for all nations to reduce their number of armed forces and weapons.
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Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. |
? ✔ Wilson hoped to promote a country’s right to determine its own form of government.
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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. |
? ✔ Wilson hoped to promote freedom and democracy with a multi-national organization to help prevent further worldwide conflicts.
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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. |
End Secret Diplomacy
Fredom of the Seas in Peace and War
Reduction of Arms
Self-Determination
League of Nations