Paris Peace Conference 1919

(noun)

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 set peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following World War I. Diplomats from more than 32 countries met to hammer out a series of treaties that reshaped the map of Europe with new borders and countries, imposed war guilt and stiff financial penalties on Germany, parceled out colonies, and established the League of Nations.

Related Terms

  • Fourteen Points
  • League of Nations

Examples of Paris Peace Conference 1919 in the following topics:

  • Wilson's Fourteen Points

    • The speech was delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany in November 1918 and became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
    • Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his peace-making efforts first envisioned in the speech.
    • House, on the topics most likely to arise in the anticipated peace conference at the end of the war.
    • President Wilson became sick at the onset of the Paris Peace Conference, which began on January 18, 1919 at the Palace of Versailles approximately 12 miles from Paris.
    • The leaders of the "Big Four" Allied powers at the Paris Peace Conference, May 27, 1919.
  • The Progressive Stake in the War

    • The address was intended to assure Americans that the Great War was being fought for moral causes, including post-war peace in Europe.
    • Delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany, the speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
    • The speech was the only explicit statement of aims by any of the nations involved in World War I and led to Wilson receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a peaceful global community.
  • The Paris Peace Conference

    • The Paris Peace Conference determined the terms of peace after World War I between the victorious Allies and defeated Central Powers.
    • Following the Allied victory, President Woodrow Wilson met with his counterparts, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain and Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
    • The most contentious outcome of the Paris Peace Conference was a punitive peace accord, the Treaty of Versailles, which included a “war-guilt clause” laying blame for the outbreak of war on Germany and, as punishment, weakening its military and required it to pay all war costs of the victorious nations.
    • Allied leaders during the Paris Peace Conference including, from left, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and U.S.
    • Analyze the contentious negotiations between the U.S., Britain, and France at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

    • America needed to turn from a wartime climate to domestic peace when the war ended in November 1918.
    • The Red Summer is a term for the race riots of the summer and early autumn of 1919.
    • Delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany, the speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
    • The speech was the only explicit statement of aims by any of the nations involved in World War I and led to Wilson receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a peaceful global community.
    • Council of Four at the Paris Peace Conference, May 27, 1919.
  • The Election of 1920

    • Politicians argued over peace treaties and America's entry into the League of Nations, which produced an isolationist reaction.
    • While revolutions dominated overseas politics, at home the wartime economic boom had collapsed and 1919 was marked by major strikes in the meatpacking and steel industries, large-scale race riots, and terrorist attacks on Wall Street that produced fear of radicals.
    • He died in January 1919, leaving no obvious heir to his Progressive legacy.
    • Irish- and German-American voters who had backed Wilson and peace in 1916 now voted against Wilson and Versailles.
    • At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Wilson had reneged on his commitments to the Irish-American and German-American communities, which vehemently denounced him afterward.
  • The League of Nations

    • The League of Nations was an international, governmental organization founded through negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which officially brought an end to the First World War.
    • The Paris Peace Conference approved the proposal to create the League of Nations in January 1919, and the league was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles.
    • In June 1919, 44 states signed the league's covenant.
    • Despite Wilson's efforts to establish and promote the organization, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize (bestowed in 1920) in recognition of his work as the “Father of the League of Nations”, the United States did not join the league due to opposition from Republicans in the Senate.
    • Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 1919.
  • The Wilson Administration

    • Prior to his re-election, Wilson unsuccessfully attempted to mediate peace between the belligerent European powers.
    • He attended the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to help create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on establishing new nations from the remains of defunct empires.
    • For his sponsorship of the League of Nations, Wilson received the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Diplomatic Goals at the Paris Peace Conference

  • The Fight for the Treaty

    • While Wilson was successful in negotiating the terms of peace following World War I, the next question was whether the United States Senate would approve the Treaty of Versailles by the required two-thirds vote.
    • In September 1919, Wilson embarked on a cross-country speaking tour in an attempt to rally the nation to his support, despite the intense opposition from Irish Catholics and Germans, most of them Democrats .
    • The closest the Treaty came to passage came in mid-November 1919, when Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-Treaty Democrats, and were close to a two-thirds majority for a Treaty, with reservations.
    • Some suggest that Wilson's stroke on September 25, 1919 had so altered his personality that he was unable to effectively negotiate with Lodge.
    • Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • War Debts and Reparations

    • World War I reparations were compensation imposed during the Paris Peace Conference upon the Central Powers following their defeat in World War I by the Allied and Associate Powers.
    • Taking into account the sum already paid between 1919 and 1921, Germany's immediate obligation was 41 billion gold marks.
    • On 16 June, the Lausanne Conference opened.
    • However, discussions were complicated by the ongoing World Disarmament Conference.
    • At the latter conference, the US informed the British and French that they would not be allowed to default on their war debts.
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