The 14 points

Question 1

Point 1

Answer 1

Open covenants of peace openly arrived at. Diplomacy shall always proceed frankly and in the public view

Question 2

Point 2

Answer 2

Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas outside territorial waters

Question 3

Point 3

Answer 3

The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers

Question 4

Point 4

Answer 4

Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point in consistent with domestic safety

Question 5

Point 5

Answer 5

A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims… the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whos title to be determined

Question 6

Point 6

Answer 6

The evacuation of all Russian territory

Question 7

Point 7

Answer 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

Question 8

Point 8

Answer 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 should be righted

Question 9

Point 9

Answer 9

A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality

Question 10

Point 10

Answer 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

Question 11

Point 11

Answer 11

Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated, Serbia afforded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly council along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality

Question 12

Point 12

Answer 12

The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured of a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities should be assured an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently open as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations

Question 13

Point 13

Answer 13

An independent Poland 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

Question 14

Point 14

Answer 14

A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike