Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George
on the day of the
signing of the Versailles Treaty.
Photo credit.
With the end of the Great War, the
Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ceased to exist.
At least 8.5 million men were dead and 16 million wounded; over 37
million total casualties.
The diplomats attending the Paris Peace Conference, meeting at
the Palace of Versailles, intended to draft a general peace treaty to
end the state of war and to redraw the map of Europe. That did not happen.