What peace treaty with Germany was signed in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference?

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The peace treaty with Germany signed in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference was the Treaty of Versailles. Germany signed it on 28 June 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

The treaty formally ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied powers. It imposed territorial losses, military restrictions, reparations obligations, and Germany's responsibility for causing the war under the treaty's famous war-guilt clause. Germany was not an equal participant in drafting the terms and initially rejected them, but signed after the Allies threatened to resume the conflict.

The armistice of 11 November 1918 had stopped the fighting, but it was not the final peace settlement. The other Central Powers signed separate treaties: Austria signed Saint-Germain, Bulgaria signed Neuilly, Hungary signed Trianon, and the Ottoman Empire was addressed through the Treaty of Sèvres. Brest-Litovsk was a separate 1918 treaty between Germany and Bolshevik Russia.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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