Paris Peace Conference

(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

  • The Fourteen Points
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Progressive Era
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Fourteen Points
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

The Paris Peace Conference in 1919 was a meeting of the Allied victors and the defeated Central Powers to set the terms of the armistice ending World War I and establish a postwar peace plan based on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

Related Terms

  • The Fourteen Points
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Progressive Era
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Fourteen Points
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

(noun)

The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistice of 1918.

Related Terms

  • The Fourteen Points
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Progressive Era
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Fourteen Points
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations

Examples of Paris Peace Conference in the following topics:

  • Diplomatic Goals at the Paris Peace Conference

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
    • Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • 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 league was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
    • 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.
    • The league held its first council meeting in Paris in January 1920, six days after the Versailles Treaty came into force.
    • Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 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 Ford Administration

    • American offensive operations against North Vietnam had ended with the Paris Peace Accords, signed on January 27, 1973.
    • The agreement guaranteed the territorial integrity of Vietnam and, like the Geneva Conference of 1954, called for national elections in the North and South.
    • The Paris Peace Accords stipulated a 60-day period for the total withdrawal of U.S. forces .
  • The Peace of Paris

    • The Treaty of Paris, signed 10 February 1763, by Great Britain, France, and Spain, ended the French and Indian War.
    • The Treaty of Paris, also called the Peace of Paris, was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement.
    • The Treaty of Paris is frequently noted as the point at which France gave Louisiana to Spain.
    • Despite a desire for peace, many in the British parliament opposed the surrender of hard-fought conquests.
    • Frederick would have to negotiate peace terms separately, in the Treaty of Hubertusburg.
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
    • The UDHR urges member nations to promote a number of human, civil, economic and social rights, asserting these rights are part of the "foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."
    • It aims to recognize, "the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."
    • The United Nations Charter was drafted at a conference in April–June 1945; this charter took effect 24 October 1945, and the UN began operation.
    • The 1968 United Nations International Conference on Human Rights advised that the Declaration "constitutes an obligation for the members of the international community" to all persons.
  • The Treaty of Paris

    • The American Congress of the Confederation ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784.
    • British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784, and the ratified versions were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784.
    • The preface to the Treaty stated that the signatories entered into it in good faith, and declared the intention of both parties to "forget all past misunderstandings and differences" and "secure to both perpetual peace and harmony. "
    • Signature page of the Treaty of Paris courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
    • Evaluate how the Treaty of Paris redefined boundaries and the relationship between America and Britain
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