The Versailles peace treaty was signed on June 28, 1919 in the hall of mirrors at the palace of Versailles in Paris, France. The peace treaty was drafted at the Paris peace conference where representatives from all the allied countries met to decide the fait of the defeated countries. Of the representatives sent to the conference the four making the majority of the decisions were David Lloyd George of Britain, George Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the United States, and to some extent Vittorio Orlando of Italy. These four representatives were known as the "Big Four." Each of these men came to the conference with specific need for their individual countries.

George Clemenceau, the Prime Minister of France; he was nicknamed "The Tiger." France had two main concerns with the treaty of Versailles. One, to

The details of the treaty horrified some Germans and enraged others. The treaty was unjust for many reasons. The Germans were not allowed to have representatives at the peace conference and therefore were forced to accept the terms of the peace treaty. Many Germans did not actually believe that the Germans had been defeated because Germany had never been invaded, and even if they had, they further believed that the punishments would be lenient because of Wilson's "Fourteen Points." The details of the treaty caught the Germans completely off guard and later caused great up rise in Germany.

Vittorio Orlando was the Prime Minister of Italy. Italy had declared war on Germany in 1915 after one of the many treaties of London, in which Italy agreed to declare war on Germany in exchange for land on the Adriatic coast. Orlando wanted only to receive this land and otherwise was not a large part of the discussions of the "Big Four" at the peace conference.

With the demands of each of the "Big Four" in mind the treaty was drafted. Unfortunately, at this time it was common knowledge that Germany was entirely responsible for the war. Therefore the treaty was unjustly biased towards them. Germany was forced to accept all blame for the war in the "war guilt clause." Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France, as well as the Saar valley, which included mine fields in compensation for French mines ruined during the war. Poland was declared an independent country and given a corridor to the Baltic Sea. Danzig; a city with both German and Polish citizens was placed under international rule as a free city. The German army was to be a maximum of 100,000 men, while the vast German navy (once second only to Britain) was to be reduced to twenty-four warships. Also, Germany was prevented from ever having an ally with Austria again. Finally, Germany was feed a total amount of somewhere in the area of $33,000,000,000 in reparations for damage ca

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