Self-determination

**DEFINITION** Self-determination was a core concept issued in the Fourteen Points by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918 to allow nations to have the right to choose their sovereignty without any external influence.

**SIGNIFICANCE**  In World War I, many leaders used were driven to war by the self-determination of themselves who hoped to make political and economic gains by using the war for a platform for various things. President Wilson implemented this in order to support the right of all nations during the WWI to sovereign their own country.