The Paris Peace Conference opened on 12th January 1919, meetings were held at various locations in and around Paris until 20th January, 1920. Leaders of 32 states representing about 75% of the world's population, attended. However, negotiations were dominated by the aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson major powers responsible for aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson the Central Powers: the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan. Important figures in these negotiations included Georges aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson (France) David Lloyd aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson (Britain), Vittorio Orlando (Italy), and Woodrow aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson (United States).



The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:

(1) the surrender of all German aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson as League of Nations mandates;

(2) the return of Alsace-Lorraine to aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson;

(3) cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia,

(4) Poznania, parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson;

(5) Danzig to become a free city;

(6) plebiscites to be held in northern Schleswig to settle the Danish-German frontier;

(7) occupation and special status for the Saar under aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson control; (8) demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland;

(9) German reparations of £6,600 aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson;

(10) a ban on the aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson of Germany and Austria;

(11) an acceptance of Germany's aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson in causing the war;

(11) provision for the trial of the former Kaiser and other war leaders;

(12) limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson with no conscription, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson and no airships;

(13) the limitation of the German aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson to vessels under 100,000 tons, with no submarines;

Germany signed the Versailles Treaty under aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson. Many people in France and Britain were angry that there was no trial of the aircraftClemenceaucoloniesdefeatingfiveFranceFrenchGeorgeguiltKaisermenmillionNavyPolandprotestunionWilson or the other war leaders.