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The allied leaders views on how best to create peace varied in whether or not to punish Germany for "starting the war".France and Britain both wanted Germany to pay for all the damage they had caused. While, the U.S. wanted peace and not punishment. You can see the motives of the allied leaders in their attempts of peace, or lackthereof. The U.S seemed to want to hurry up with peace, because 10 months before the war was even over, President Woodrow Wilson developed the Fourteen Points. Wilson thought that the Fourteen Points would bring a fair peace settlement.The Fourteen Points consisted of ways to remove conflict,readjust territories,and establish a League of Nations.He called this "peace without victory". In November of that same year, Germany agreed to an armistice, thinking that the peace settlement would be based on the Fourteen Points.The rest of the allied leaders, had something else in mind.
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