Wilson's plan for peace after WWI.

• A. League of Nations
• B. Fourteen Points
• C. U.S.S. Maine
• D. Dawes Act

Answer: (B)

Understanding Wilson's postwar peace plan is what this item asks you to recall. The best answer is the Fourteen Points, Wilson's comprehensive blueprint announced in 1918 outlining how to structure a just and lasting peace after World War I. It emphasized open diplomacy instead of secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, arms reductions, fair adjustment of colonial claims with the respect of self-determination for peoples, and the creation of a League of Nations to safeguard peace and security.

The League of Nations is a key feature included within the plan, but the overall plan is identified by the name Fourteen Points. The other options don’t fit as the peace plan: the U.S.S. Maine pertains to events around the Spanish-American War in 1898, and the Dawes Act relates to late 19th-century U.S. policy toward Native Americans, not postwar Europe.