President wilson's fourteen points were largely unsuccessful in bringing about lasting peace because the league of nations had a strong rivalry between its members the allies were more concerned with punishment and restitution than with peace. germany refused to accept any agreement based on the fourteen points. european countries could no longer use secret agreements to settle disputes .

The correct answer is the second option.

On January 8, 1918, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson of the United States presented his Fourteen Point program to end World War I (1914-1918). Wilson's proposal systematized his ideas already made public in April 1917, before the United States went to war. It advocated a “peace without winners or losers” that guaranteed “making the world safe for democracy”. He argued that if the self-determination of the great nations were the basis for peace, then that would be the last conflict, "a war to end all wars."