What should everyone know about the Treaty of Versailles?

What the UK should have said to Hitler in 1935 is there is an existing treaty (ie Versailles) which governs the size of the German Navy. If you exceed the limits on the number of warships that you maintain at any one time this will lead to the immediate resumption of the war that was suspended in 1918. read more

On June 28, 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Germany's representatives Hermann Müller and Johannes Bell signed the Versailles Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, France. read more

The Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolutionand other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris – hence its title – between Germany and the Allies. read more