8 January 1918: The Fourteen Points—In a speech before the United States Congress, President Woodrow Wilson laid out the U.S.'s war aims, based on research conducted by "the Inquiry," a study group led by Wilson confidant Edward M. House; the enumerated points were widely disseminated as Entente propaganda, even dropped as leaflets behind Central Powers lines to encourage surrender.
Lest we forget.
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