Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty of Versailles was the 1919 peace agreement that formally ended World War I and imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic terms on Germany while reshaping the map of Europe.


Statements (63)
Predicate Object
instanceOf World War I peace settlement
international treaty
peace treaty
cameIntoForceOn 1920-01-10
consideredHarshBy many historians
containsArticle Article 231
containsClause war guilt clause
contributedTo political instability in Weimar Germany
createdNewState Poland
demilitarizedRegion Rhineland
endedConflict World War I
endedStateOfWarBetween Allied Powers
Germany
establishedOrganization League of Nations
imposedOn Germany
imposedReparationsOn Germany
influenced interwar European borders
influencedRiseOf Nazism in Germany
language English
French
Italian
Japanese
limitedMilitaryOf Germany
negotiatedAt Paris Peace Conference
negotiatedIn Paris
negotiatedInCountry France
partyTo Belgium
China
Czechoslovakia
France
German Reich
Greece
Italy
Japan
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Siam
United Kingdom
United States
principalAuthor David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Woodrow Wilson
recognizedNewState Czechoslovakia
replacedBy Locarno Treaties (in some aspects)
restrictedArmySizeOf Germany
returnedTerritoryName Alsace-Lorraine
returnedTerritoryTo France
signedAt Palace of Versailles
signedBy Allied and Associated Powers
German delegation
signedIn Versailles
signedInCountry France
signedOn 1919-06-28
signedOnAnniversaryOf assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
subjectOf historical debate about causes of World War II
transferredTerritoryFrom Germany
transferredTerritoryTo Belgium
France
Poland
year 1919

Referenced by (55)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Abdication of Wilhelm II
German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
Little Entente
Locarno Treaties
Treaty of Riga
relatedTo
Reichsmarine
Reichswehr
Upper Silesia plebiscite
Vennbahn railway
legalBasis
Free City of Danzig
League of Nations
President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig
createdBy
Allied Powers of World War I
France and Austria ("Treaty of Versailles 1919")
French Third Republic
signedTreaty
Constitution of the International Labour Organization
Covenant of the League of Nations
partOf
Paris Peace Conference
Weimar Republic
significantEvent
Mein Kampf ("Versailles Treaty")
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
subject
Anschluss of Austria
remilitarization of the Rhineland
violated
Rhineland Pact
basedOn
May Fourth Movement
cause
Treaty of Versailles ("war guilt clause")
containsClause
Franco-Polish alliance ("Treaty of Versailles system")
context
Georges Clemenceau
coSigned
Rhineland
demilitarizedBy
Deutschland class
designedUnderConstraint
Prussian Army
disbandedBy
Prussian General Staff
dissolutionCause
Great General Staff
dissolvedBy
Imperial German Army Air Service
dissolvedFollowing
Covenant of the League of Nations
enteredIntoForceWith
Volkstag of the Free City of Danzig
establishedAfter
Lausanne Conference of 1932 ("Treaty of Versailles reparations regime")
followed
Armistice of 11 November 1918
followedBy
World War I
formalEndTreaty
International Labour Organization
foundingDocument
Treaties of the United Kingdom ("Treaty of Versailles 1919")
hasPart
Rhineland ("Treaty of Versailles demilitarization (1919)")
historicalEvent
Treaties of New Zealand ("Treaty of Versailles (1919)")
includes
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points ("Treaty of Versailles debates")
influenced
Eupen-Malmedy region
legalBasisOfTransfer
Armistice of 11 November 1918
legalSuccessor
A Revision of the Treaty
mainSubject
Central Powers
peaceTreaty
remilitarization of the Rhineland
precededBy
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
relatedTreaty
Chorzów Factory case
relatesTo
Alsace-Lorraine ("Treaty of Versailles (1919)")
returnedUnder
Interwar period
significantTreaty
S.S. Wimbledon case
treatyInterpreted
Left Bank of the Rhine
wasDemilitarizedByTreaty

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