Organized by: the History Meeting House and the Ronald Reagan Foundation in Poland
Partners: the KARTA Centre, American Centre in Warsaw
Content-based producers: the KARTA Centre
Project coordinator: Katarzyna Puchalska (DSH)
Text arrangement and compilation: Adam Safaryjski
Cooperation: Marta Markowska
Iconography: Joanna Łuba
Graphic design: Katarzyna Godyn-Skoczylas
18.12.2017
—28.01.2018
The exhibition presents US president, Woodrow Wilson’s contribution to regaining independence by Poland.
Event date
In his speech to Congress on 8 January 1918, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the American president, outlined his 14 points which were the principles for peace after World War I. Point XIII of his speech forecast the independence of Poland, which materialized in November, 1918.
President Wilson in his Point XIII emphasized:
An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Washington, 8 January 1918
Stanisław Dzierzbicki: Pamiętnik z lat wojny 1914-1918,(The Memoirs from the War 1914-1918), Warsaw 1983
