January 8, 2018, will mark a century since the President of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson, addressed the US Congress to outline the terms upon which the Great War should be brought to an end.

Wilson's speech was as much a plea to the Allied nations to make the most of their imminent victory as it was a declaration of the circumstances under which peace could be made. However, what Wilson would enunciate in his short speech was more than the terms for ending the hostilities in Europe; they were the terms upon which all future hostilities might be ended.