The First World War was a period in which countries faced economic, political, social and cultural problems, which threatened the survival of democracy and freedom and required a rapid and effective solution that it was presented to Woodrow Wilson's world called the Fourteen Points. The Fourteen Points offered the world a democratic, effective, reliable solution and a basis for lasting peace, unlike the Treaty of Versailles which represented a non-democratic approach to the problem as it contained a war guilt clause that forced Germany to admit only responsibility for starting World War I, although other European nations had been guilty of provoking diplomatic crises before the war, the treaty also excluded Russia, which was a major communist power at the time, from participation in the treaty which increased communist hatred towards democracy. The Fourteen Points would make the world safe for democracy in 3 ways, firstly they would establish national borders based on the choice of the people who lived there, which meant they would have a democratic say in how the borders were to be established , also gave rise to many new nations such as Serbia and Montenegro and Romania, as stated in the eleventh point "Romania, Serbia and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored, Serbia should have free and safe access to the sea and relations between the several Balkan States should be determined among themselves by a friendly council, and the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan States should be guaranteed internationally", the second way to ensure democracy was by reducing national armaments, which meant that no country had enough weapons to start a war, Russia also had to be welcomed into... middle of paper... democracy and for that make the world safer. The League of Nations allowed countries to argue over territorial issues and other political problems. It would have been a great start for the progressivism of democracy and the spread of modernism throughout the world. World War I was a time of change where many problems occurred and needed a solution, which Wilson offered, but was rejected by the world powers. Wilson's Fourteen Point Speech was a way to make the world safe and friendly for democracy to thrive. It also offered equality, freedom, prosperity and peace to the world, unlike other solutions offered such as the Treaty of Versailles. The Fourteen Points would have changed the world in a completely different way and brought it into an era of modernism without having to go through World War II and the Cold War, which would have happened later..