A History of Modern Europe by Albert S. Lindemann

Author:Albert S. Lindemann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

15 The Paris Peace Settlement

The Paris Peace Conference, which met from January through June 1919 and included representatives from over thirty nations, faced the Herculean task of establishing order in vast disorder. Called by the “Council of Four” of the victorious powers (President Woodrow Wilson, Premier Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando), the Conference aspired to redraw much of the map of Europe, setting up liberal-democratic regimes where they had not existed before.

The peace process was formally completed with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, on June 28, 1919, ending the war exactly five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The Treaty spelled out the terms of peace with Germany, although “Versailles” is often used as a shorthand for the entire settlement arranged by the Paris Peace Conference. A series of separate treaties followed that were based on the text of the Versailles Treaty but that applied to other defeated powers.

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