In addition, President Woodrow Wilson was very idealistic in his approach to peace. He brought his Fourteen Points - ideas to end war for all time - to the peace negotiations, while Britain was more interested in how their empire could gain from winning the war, and France was more interested in punishment of Germany and war reparations.
The Fourteen Points did influence the final treaty, creating a League of Nations and creating the new nations of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, but the Treaty was also harsh and damaging towards Germany in the end, which many historians argue led to the rise of Hitler in later years.
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