Paderewski represented Poland at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and signed the Treaty of Versailles, which recognised Polish independence won after World War I. His tenure as Prime Minister did not ...

“Making peace is harder than waging war,” Georges Clemenceau, the French prime minister, said in 1919 of the Paris Peace Conference.

At the Paris Peace Conference, Keynes saw what his colleagues did not: the Treaty of Versailles would set the stage for a new conflict. The "war to end all wars" would soon have a sequel.

PARIS -- Peace became effective at 4:11 p.m. today when allied and German representatives exchanged ratifications of the treaty of Versailles. Previous to the exchange of the ratifications, the ...

World War I officially came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. 32 countries had come together in Paris in January 1919 to hold a conference which would make ...

100 years ago, on the 28th June 1919, the peace treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers was signed at Versailles, France.

Few books in economics deserve much notice a century after their publication. One that does is John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919. The short tract is a ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the book that popularised the idea the Treaty of Versailles was disastrous, supporting the argument of Germany in the 1930s and feeding appeasement. Show more In an ...

Following the death and destruction from World War I, leaders of some of the world’s major powers held a conference in Paris to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Unfortunately, the combination of a ...