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Treaty of Versailles

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Political Atlas. "Treaty of Versailles." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://political.interactiveatlas.org/documents/treaty-of-versailles.

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Political Atlas. (n.d.). Treaty of Versailles. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://political.interactiveatlas.org/documents/treaty-of-versailles

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@misc{politicalatlas-treaty-of-versailles,
  author = {Political Atlas},
  title = {Treaty of Versailles},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://political.interactiveatlas.org/documents/treaty-of-versailles},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, ending the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers after the First World War. It required Germany to disarm, cede roughly 65,000 square kilometres of territory and seven million people, pay reparations, accept responsibility for the war under Article 231, and accept the Covenant of the League of Nations.

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Key Provision

Signed on 28 June 1919, it formally ended the First World War between Germany and the Allied powers, imposed substantial territorial losses and disarmament on Germany, assigned Germany responsibility for the war under its war guilt clause, Article 231, required Germany to pay reparations, and established the League of Nations in its opening articles. The reparations and war guilt provisions in particular were widely resented in Germany and are commonly cited among the underlying causes of the Second World War. 1

Dates

Signed

1919-06-28 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

League of Nations

The League of Nations was established in the treaty's opening articles (the League of Nations Covenant).

Source Treaty of Versailles (Wikipedia)

Weimar Constitution

The treaty's reparations and territorial burdens shaped the political and economic conditions the Weimar Republic's constitution had to govern under from its first year.

Source Treaty of Versailles (Wikipedia)