more than 20,00 people were dead by the end of the days battle. James Willbanks called this “the blackest day in British military history”. Woodrow Willson thought that because of the many plans that were set into motion during the war did work as well armies had hoped, that they would turn to weaponry like the machine gun to create to mass amounts of killings. Because of this, the result was the reduction of armaments to put an end to mass amounts of deaths. Woodrow Willson’s fourth point from the fourteen points, the reduction of armaments, was needed to put an end to the unnecessary amount of deaths that were created amongst the battlefields of the war. Woodrow Willson had many ideas to help bring peace to the war. A few of his other
