Topic overview
What you need to know
The Paris Peace Conference produced several treaties after the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles reflected competing aims and created lasting controversy.
Exam tip
Link each leader's aims to domestic pressures and explain why compromise produced a settlement no leader considered perfect.
Core knowledge
Key facts for Peacemaking after the First World War
Paris Peace Conference
The 1919 meeting at which the victorious powers negotiated peace settlements after the First World War.
Fourteen Points
Wilson's principles for a fair peace, including self-determination and a League of Nations.
Reparations
Payments demanded from Germany for damage caused during the war.
War Guilt Clause
Article 231 of Versailles, which made Germany accept responsibility for war damage as a basis for reparations.
Self-determination
The principle that national groups should be able to choose their own government.
Diktat
The German description of Versailles as a dictated peace that Germany had not been allowed to negotiate.
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