What effect did the “Fourteen Points” have on Germany at the end of World War I?

President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points presented a plan for a fair peace, including an end to secret agreements and a more just settlement. German leaders believed an armistice would lead to peace based on those principles, so they became willing to stop fighting. The later Treaty of Versailles was much harsher than Germany had expected, but the promise of a fair settlement helped bring Germany to seek an armistice.

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