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Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

January 18, 1919 – January 21, 1920 · Paris

The conference at which the victorious Allies of the First World War set peace terms for the Central Powers, producing five treaties.

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Key people

Georges Clemenceau president of the conference

David Lloyd George British prime minister and delegate

Jan Smuts South African delegate; helped design the League of Nations

Participants

Battles and events 1

Treaty of Versailles June 28, 1919

Before and after

Followed from: World War I July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
Led to: Treaty of Trianon June 4, 1920
Treaty of Sèvres August 10, 1920

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Progressive era

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Armenian genocide

Russian Revolution

February Revolution

Russian Civil War

Armistice of Salonica

German Revolution

Armistice of Mudros

Polish–Ukrainian War

Armistice of Villa Giusti

Armistice of 11 November 1918

Occupation of Constantinople

Armistice of Belgrade

Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

Polish–Soviet War

Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow

Treaty of Versailles

Roaring Twenties

Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Sèvres

U.S.–Austrian Peace Treaty (1921)

U.S.–German Peace Treaty (1921)

Treaty of Lausanne

Also involved 8

Raymond Poincaré President of France; argued for Allied control of the Rhineland
Ferdinand Foch military adviser who argued for a Rhine frontier
John Foster Dulles legal counsel to the U.S. delegation
Chaim Weizmann Zionist representative
T. E. Lawrence member of Faisal's delegation
Fumimaro Konoe member of the Japanese delegation
Albert I of Belgium Belgian king who attended the conference
Allen Dulles member of the American delegation