How much did the post war aims of the victors agree or disagree with Woodrow Wilson's 14 points?

        Great Britian wanted Germany to stay stronger so it could protect against Bolshevism which would go against point 6). However it would not give Germans or others from the losing nation the ability to choose where they belong to and did not give the people who belonged to the former Ottoman Empire freedom but turned them into mandate countries which they along with France watched over. Lloyd George, the British PM did not want long term British commitments in central Europe, but was pressured into getting as large a sum of reparations as Germany could pay. Germany also had to accept the war guilt clause according to the Brits. Britian wanted to reconcile with Germany rather than for Germany to want to get revenge. Britian did not agree with the first 3 points since it wanted to to have the strongest trade, which was strengthened even more by the fact that German economy was strained. It also wanted the most powerful navy which would go against free navigation of seas which wanted all countries to have the ability to have a naval power.

France would not accept anything short of Germany being severely weakened. It got back its previous territory of Alsace-Lorraine (point 8), along with Britain it set up an independent Poland with access to the see. It would not however even consider disarming even though it had greatly weakened the German army. It forced countries that were previously controlled by the Ottoman Empire under its mandate system which did not follow point 12 of the 14 points. It helped create new countries on German’s eastern border by giving people self-determination and helped give Belgium its independence because it wanted allies against Germany as point 7 demanded.

Italy and Japan gained territories that were previously Germany (some territories were gained from nations that fought against Germany). Italians returned to living within the Italian border as the  9th point of the 14 points suggested and Italy was seen as an ally against any future German empire so it gained an upper hand in future negotiations. Japan was given more power in the Pacific but it did not get the racial clause it wanted. It also took Manchuria under madate.

        The 5 major powers of the time followed certain aspects of the treaty such as giving Poland independence and liberating Belgium and even returned parts of the former Russian territories to the Soviet Union. They did not follow other aspects of the 14 points that President Woodrow Wilson presented, but they tried to follow the simpler ones like giving all nations access to seas which was the second point. No nation would disarm though and this had a major impact on the start of World War 2 which point 4 asked for, along with taking self-determination away from certain people.