Paris Peace Conference

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Paris Peace Conference

1919–1920

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Category: History & Society

Date:: January 18, 1919 - January 16, 1920

Location:: France; Paris

Participants:: Austria; Bulgaria; France; Germany; Italy; Japan; Poland; United Kingdom; United States; Yugoslavia

Context:: League of Nations; Treaty of Neuilly; Treaty of Saint-Germain; Treaty of Versailles

Major Events:: King–Crane Commission

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Paris Peace Conference, (1919–20), the meeting that inaugurated the international settlement after World War I. Although hostilities had been brought formally to an end by a series of armistices between the Allies and their adversaries—that of Salonika (Thessaloníka) with Bulgaria on September 29, 1918, that of Mudros with Turkey on October 30, that of Villa Giusti with Austria-Hungary on November 3, and that of Rethondes with Germany on November 11—the conference did not open until January 18, 1919. This delay was attributable chiefly to the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, who chose to have his mandate confirmed by a ...(100 of 570 words)

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