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”Peace Without Victory” speech

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”Peace Without Victory” speech an address given by President Woodrow Wilson on January 22, 1917. He proposed peace terms for ending the war and defined the traditional use of victory as being anathema to the establishment of peace among nations. After U.S. entry into World War I on April 16, 1917, he proposed peace terms in the Fourteen Points address, which was based on this speech.

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