The leaders of the Allied Powers (Britain, US, France, Italy, Russia and Japan) had the difficult task of deciding what should happen to the defeated Central Powers (Germany, Austria Hungary, the ...

What was the Paris Peace Conference? The Paris Peace Conference (also the Versailles Peace Conference) was an international summit of world leaders, convened on 18 January 1919, by the victorious ...

The Council of Four, which included (left to right) Great Britain Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau and US President Woodrow ...

PARIS -- The Peace Conference convened for its first official session at 3:00 p.m. today. Delegates representing 26 nations met in the famous Clock Hall of the Quai d'Orsay. President Poincare ...

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It is National Voters’ Day in India. On this day in 1950, the Election Commission of India (ECI) was established under ...

"Big Four" world leaders at World War I Peace Conference in Paris, May 27, 1919. From left to right: Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Premier Vittorio Orlando, Premier Georges Clemenceau ...

As leader of the French delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, he insisted on Germany's disarmament. Born into a strongly republican family in the Vendée region on France's west coast in 1841 ...

President Richard M. Nixon told Americans the war had ended, the Paris Peace Accords would be signed, and U.S. soldiers would come home.

On Jan. 18, 1919, a few months after the end of World War I, leaders from the Allied nations began a series of discussions that became known as the Paris Peace Conference to settle issues raised ...

On 18 January 1919, the Peace Conference opened in Paris, bringing together the victors of the First World War to prepare the peace treaties. From the very opening, new nations expressed their ...