Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

     President Woodrow Wilson proposed fourteen points with the hope of creating peace for the world.  One of his points was the free navigation of all seas, meaning that anyone could navigate the seas of the world without consequence.  Today, that ability no longer exists.  Like with certain airspaces, parts of the sea are run by different countries, and in order to navigate these areas permission must be obtained.  If this is violated consequences will ensue, in some cases ships have been destroyed because they may have been dangerous.  Sometimes in tense situations a warning is issued to keep distance from parts of the sea.
     Another one of Wilson's points was to reduce the number of weapons each country has, but that never took place.  Today there are gun laws, but there is no restriction on how many weapons can be produced and owned by a country.  Each country looks at the ownership of weapons a different way, but no country has reduced their number of weapons.  Overall, countries have in fact increased the number of weapons they posses. 
     Wilson also added a point that said France should be liberated, and recover Alsace-Lorraine, this was a little more successful.  At first, France regained Alsace-Lorraine, but during WWII Germany was able to recapture it.  Today Alsace-Lorraine is back under the control of France.  Also, as Wilson wanted, France is now fully liberated. 
     Wilson also wanted a League of Nations to be set up to help the independence of all states, and ensure that war would not break out.  Although this was a great plan it had many flaws, one was that although it existed both Germany and Russia could not participate.  This was a huge problem because they both held a large amount of power, and were clearly going to do whatever they desired.  Another flaw was the President Wilson could not even get his own country to join the league, greatly hurting his image.  Today the League of Nations has been replaced by a similar and more affective United Nations.
     I think of all of Wilsons points the League of Nations would have been the most successful of preventing war.  Although I previously pointed out some of the flaws in this point, I believe that if this idea had been carried out in a different way it could have been very successful.  The idea was to unite all countries so they could all play a role in the decisions of the world.  If one point could prevent war it would be this one.