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Definition: Versailles, Treaty of from Chambers Dictionary of World History

A peace treaty drawn up between Germany and the Allied powers at Paris. Of the 434 articles, the most controversial was article 231 assigning to Germany and her allies' responsibility for causing World War I, and establishing liability for reparation payments. Germany lost all overseas colonies, and considerable territory to Poland in the East. The Rhineland was demilitarized and to be occupied by Allied troops for up to 15 years, and German armed forces were strictly limited. → Paris Peace Conference


Versailles, Treaty of

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Peace treaty after World War I between the Allies (except the USA and China) and Germany, signed on 28 June 1919. It established the League of Nations , an international organization intended to solve disputes by arbitration. Germany surrendered Alsace-Lorraine to France, and large areas in the east to Poland, and made smaller cessions to Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Belgium, and Denmark. The Rhineland was demilitarized, German rearmament was restricted, and Germany agreed to pay reparations for war damage; see also Germany: history 1919–49 , the peace settlement . The treaty was never ratified by the USA, which signed separate treaties with Germany and Austria in 1921. The terms of Versailles and its reshaping of Europe contributed to the outbreak of World War II . Peace conference Following the armistice that ended World War I on 11 November 1918, a peace conference was organized for the victorious Allies at the palace of Versailles, near Paris, France. Representatives of the 27 Allied…
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Full text Article Treaty of Versailles

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A treaty that brought a formal end to the First World War. It was signed in the Palace of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles on 28 June 1919 by Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the United States and Vittorio Orlando of Italy and took force on 10 January 1920. …
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Full text Article Treaty of Versailles

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Following the armistice that ended World War I on...
1919 The Treaty of Versailles was the peace agreement that ended…
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Full text Article The Treaty of Versailles

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The aims of the victorious allies World War I ended in November 1918. At the beginning of 1919 the victorious allies met at the French Palace of Versailles, near Paris. Their aim was to decide how to treat the defeated enemy (Germany) and to redraw the map of Europe. They hoped that if they were…
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Full text Article TREATY OF VERSAILLES (1871)

From Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties and Alliances
TREATY AT A GLANCE Completed February 26, 1871, at Versailles, France Signatories Germany and France Overview The Treaty of Versailles was the preliminary peace treaty ending the Franco-Prussian War and marking the creation of a unified German empire, which had been proclaimed on January 18, 1871, …
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Full text Article TREATY OF VERSAILLES (1919)

From Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties and Alliances
TREATY AT A GLANCE Completed June 28, 1919, at Versailles, France Signatories United States (failed to ratify), British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan (“Principal Allied and Associated Powers”); Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, the Hejaz (part of…
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Full text Article Treaty of Versailles

From Encyclopedia of the American Presidency
In January 1918, President Woodrow Wilson drafted the Fourteen Points, summarizing a set of principles he hoped would become the foundation of a treaty setting conditions for peace following World War I. These principles included lenient terms for the defeated powers and an international League of…
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From Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, China proclaimed its neutrality. Japan, on the other hand, quickly joined the Allied powers of France, Great Britain and Russia, and seized the German concessions in Shandong province including the city of Qingdao that Germany acquired by the late…
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Full text Article Why was the Treaty of Versailles so harsh on Germany?

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Background In 1918 World War I ended. The war had cost millions of lives and billions of pounds, and it had led to the destruction of vast areas of Europe. In 1919 representatives from the victorious powers and Germany met in the French Palace of Versailles, where the Treaty of Versailles was…
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Background The Treaty of Versailles punished Germany for World War I by imposing reparation payments and restrictions on its military activities. The victorious allies wished to stop Germany from starting another war. Between 1933 and 1939 Nazi Germany systematically dismantled the provisions of the…
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Full text Article Treaty of Versailles

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