Who drafted the Treaty of Versailles?

The treaty of Versailles (StGermain, Sèvres, Trianon, Neuilly) was the product of the most extraordinary conference assembling 70 delegates to end the first global war, compensate for damages, organize the break up of failed empires, create or envisage new nation-states, reinvent diplomacy and deal (or not) with nascent communism. read more

Dignitaries gathering in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France, to sign the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was among the statesmen who gathered in France in June 1919 to sign the Treaty of Versailles, an agreement that did little to heal the wounds of World War I and set the stage for World War II. read more

The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was drafted at the Paris Peace Conference in the spring of 1919 and shaped by the Big Four powers—Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States. This souvenir copy of the Paris Peace Conference program is signed by President Woodrow Wilson and other world leaders. read more