The Paris Peace Conference opened in January 1919, when the victorious Allied powers met to settle the terms of peace after the First World War. The leading figures were the so-called Big Four: Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France and Vittorio Orlando of Italy. The defeated powers were excluded from the negotiations. The conference produced the Treaty of Versailles with Germany, signed in June 1919, which imposed territorial losses, limits on its army and reparations, and included the Covenant of the League of Nations. Separate treaties dealt with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, and redrew the map of Europe and the Middle East. Many came to see the settlement as flawed and as a contributing cause of later tensions.
Before and after
- 1919Founding of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- 1919Founding of Leeds United F.C.
- from 1919 to 1933Founding of Bauhaus
- 1919Founding of Baku State University
- 1919Paris Peace Conference
- 1919Founding of Save the Children
- 1919Establishment of Grand Canyon National Park
- from 1 January 1919 to 25 August 1991Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
- 1919Founding of Einstein Tower
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