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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War I peace settlement
international treaty
peace treaty
cameIntoForceOn 1920-01-10
consideredHarshBy many historians
containsArticle Article 231
containsClause Treaty of Versailles self-linksurface differs
surface form: war guilt clause
contributedTo political instability in Weimar Germany
createdNewState Poland
demilitarizedRegion Rhineland
endedConflict World War I
endedStateOfWarBetween Allied Powers of World War I
surface form: 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 Empire
surface form: German Reich

Greece
Italy
Japan
Yugoslavia
surface form: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

Poland
Portugal
Romania
Thailand
surface form: Siam

United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: 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 Versailles
surface form: Palace of Versailles
signedBy Allied Powers of World War I
surface form: 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

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Abdication of Wilhelm II relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
Great General Staff dissolvedBy Treaty of Versailles
Prussian General Staff dissolutionCause Treaty of Versailles
Rhineland Pact basedOn Treaty of Versailles
German presidential election, 1925 campaignIssue Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Versailles Treaty
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine relatedAgreement Treaty of Versailles
Weimar National Assembly ratified Treaty of Versailles
Treaties of France hasPart Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Franco-German border associatedWithTreaty Treaty of Versailles
Lausanne Agreement relatesToTreaty Treaty of Versailles
Shandong Question at Versailles relatedToTreaty Treaty of Versailles
German Kamerun legalBasisOfPartition Treaty of Versailles
World War I diplomacy includesAgreement Treaty of Versailles
Dawes Plan for German reparations after World War I relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
subject surface form: Dawes Plan
Reichswehr air units basedOnTreaty Treaty of Versailles
Germany and Belgium relatedToTreaty Treaty of Versailles
subject surface form: Germany–Belgium border
Silesian Uprisings relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
German East Africa endCause Treaty of Versailles
Third Silesian Uprising relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
World War II diplomacy hasPrecedent Treaty of Versailles
European state system shapedBy Treaty of Versailles
Danish–German border redefinedByEvent Treaty of Versailles
Entente Powers signed Treaty of Versailles
Shandong Problem relatedEvent Treaty of Versailles
Wusi Yundong historicalContext Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Treaty of Versailles negotiations
May Fourth Incident cause Treaty of Versailles
Alfred Hugenberg opposed Treaty of Versailles
Polish Corridor createdBy Treaty of Versailles
Polish Corridor relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Treaty of Versailles territorial settlements
Senate of the Free City of Danzig follows Treaty of Versailles
Versailles system basedOn Treaty of Versailles
Beiyang Government signed Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Treaty of Versailles (as Chinese delegation, later not ratified)
DNVP opposed Treaty of Versailles
Château de Versailles event Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Treaty of Versailles signing
Château de Versailles treatySigned Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Prussian Partition of Poland endCause Treaty of Versailles
P.C.I.J. Series A, No. 17 relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
S.S. Wimbledon relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
Province of Posen-West Prussia afterEvent Treaty of Versailles
Malmedy cededToByTreaty Treaty of Versailles
Roman Dmowski signed Treaty of Versailles
Belgium–Germany border historicalCause Treaty of Versailles