The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the palace of Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and it formally ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Germany lost territory, including Alsace-Lorraine to France and land to Poland, gave up its colonies, accepted limits on its army and navy, and was required to pay reparations, justified by Article 231, the war guilt clause. The treaty also created the League of Nations. Many Germans saw it as a humiliating dictate, and the United States Senate refused to ratify it. Historians still debate whether its terms were too harsh or not harsh enough, and its role in the rise of Nazism.
Before and after
- from 15 May 1919 to 11 October 1922Greco-Turkish War
- from 19 May 1919 to 24 July 1923Turkish War of Independence
- 23 May 1919Founding of University of California, Los Angeles
- from 5 June 1919 to 23 June 1919Battle of Cēsis
- 28 June 1919Treaty of Versailles
- 20 July 1919Birth of Edmund Hillary
- 29 August 1919National Library of Latvia
- 10 September 1919Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- 18 October 1919Birth of Pierre Trudeau
More in Wars, politics & history
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- from February 1919 to March 1921Polish–Soviet War
- 4 June 1920Treaty of Trianon
- 24 July 1923Treaty of Lausanne
- from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945World War II
- from 6 June 1944 to 29 August 1944Normandy landings
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