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Aside from the actual
diplomatic documents and some encyclopedia entries, there is only
rather meager information available online dealing with the Paris Peace
Conference and the resulting peace treaties. There is much more
material available online in scholarly databases such as Proquest or
JSTOR, but access to that material is not without charge.
Paris Peace Conference
- wiki entry
- The United States Department of State Summary of the
Conference proceedings and the Treaty of Versailles
- The Conference opening remarks of President
Wilson and other leaders
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has an entry for the
British Empire Delegation
- Part of James Shotwell's memoir
At the Paris Peace Conference is available online, including
Appendix IV - Difficulties in Treaty-Making: The Organization of
the American Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference; Appendix V - The "British Empire" in the League Covenant; Appendix VI - Chronology of the Peace Conference; Appendix VII - The Organization of the American Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
The United States Department of State, Papers
Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
are available online:
Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919)
- The Wikipedia entry.
- The text of the treaty is available in many places online
- The eyewitness account of the actual signing of the treaty by Harold Nilcolson,
Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
- Versailles and Peacemaking
by Dr. Ruth Henig
- The Treaty of Versailles and its Consequences
- Some classroom approaches to studying the treaty
- a summary of the treaty at Peace Treaty
- Take a peek at Australia's copy of the treaty
- text of the German Protest of the terms of the Treaty
- There are many authors who assert that the treaty conditions were too hard for
Germany, for example The Treaty of Versailles
- or that the Treaty was a failure, leading to World War II, for example
"Why the
Versailles Treaty Failed" by Wendell Leitner
- Have a look at the famous picture of the Signing of Treaty of Versailles.
- Veresailles 1919 by Professor Jud Sage, my colleague at Northern Virginia Community College
- PBS material on the Treaty of Versailles (including some video)--the site is a bit difficult to navigate
- There is some brief material, including a few photos, at the support
site for the book
The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years,
edited by Manfred Boemeke, Gerald Feldman and Elisabeth Glaser
Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye (10 September 1919)
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (27 November 1919)
Treaty of Trianon (4 June 1920)
Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920)
Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923)
Since
the United States did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles,
the country ended up signing individual "peace treaties" that ended the
formal state of war and established peaceful relations
with Germany (see also, for example, FRUS, or the BYU site), Austria (also at BYU site) and
Hungary (also at BYU site) in 1921.
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