Through the years, peace has been achieved in different ways, but how it is achieved has been the subject of incessant debate. Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin were two very different individuals growing up in two different countries. Lenin was born and raised in Russia and Wilson was born and raised in the United States. They each had their own ideas on how to achieve peace, but in a way they were similar; they were both important revolutionaries of the 20th century. Wilson's vision for the post-war world was direct and accommodating to the whole world and was more appropriate unlike Lenin's vision; Lenin believed that peace was achieved by waging war first, a belief that I think is more realistic. Wilson believed that peace could be achieved through diplomacy, and this is demonstrated by his speech to a joint session of Congress on the terms of peace. Wilson states: “What we ask in this war… is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; especially that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation.” Wilson believed that the Fourteen Points that he addressed to that joint session of Congress would lead the world to a happier, safer, peaceful world. First of all, he underlines that all “peace pacts” (Wilson) should proceed in the eyes of all. Second, he emphasizes that there should be “absolute freedom of navigation on the seas” (Wilson) during a time of war or peace. As for his third point, he states that it should be a lessening of trade barriers and an “establishment of an equality of commercial conditions among all nations consenting to peace” (Wilson). As for his fourth point, he believes that there should be a reduction in the amount of “national armaments…up to half paper…I ultimately got Wilson to involve America in the war, yet he still did not encourage it as a means of achieving peace. On January 8, 1918, he addressed a joint session of Congress on his Fourteen Points that would lead the world to peace, and on November 11, 1918, World War I ended. Works Cited “War and Revolution in the Twentieth Century.” In Lives and Legacies: Biographies in Western Civilization, Volume Two, ed. Jonathan S. Perry, 97-109. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2009.Wilson, Woodrow. “Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace,” January 8, 1918. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, California: University of California. (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=65405.