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Fourteen Points: Point X – Austria-Hungary Summary

What About the Bad Guys?

  • Wilson suggests giving the citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the main participants in the war, freedom to develop and recover.
  • The wording implies his desire to break up the Empire and institute a series of smaller, democratic states.
  • Hey, that's exactly what (eventually) happened.