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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Belgium–Germany border createdByTreaty Treaty of Versailles
Essays in Persuasion subject Treaty of Versailles
Polish Question relatedToEvent Treaty of Versailles
Treaties of Belgium hasPart Treaty of Versailles
William Orpen notableWork Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919
Memel River mentionedIn Treaty of Versailles
Działdowo joinedPolandAfter Treaty of Versailles
Versailles arms limitations partOf Treaty of Versailles
Versailles arms limitations legalBasisArticle Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Article 159 of the Treaty of Versailles
Versailles arms limitations legalBasisArticle Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Article 160 of the Treaty of Versailles
Versailles arms limitations legalBasisArticle Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Article 198 of the Treaty of Versailles
Versailles arms limitations legalBasisArticle Treaty of Versailles
this entity surface form: Article 211 of the Treaty of Versailles
Organisation Consul opposed Treaty of Versailles
Independence Day relatedTo Treaty of Versailles
subject surface form: Polish Independence Day
Allied forces signedTreaty Treaty of Versailles
subject surface form: Allied forces (World War I)
Prussian Eastern Provinces historicalEvent Treaty of Versailles
Prussian Eastern Provinces dissolvedBy Treaty of Versailles