End of World War One
The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was the peace treaty that put an official end to World War I. The treaty required that Germany accept responsibility for the war and was thus obliged to pay large amounts of compensation (known as war reparations). Like many other treaties, it is named for the place of its signing: the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.
The treaty provided for the creation of the League of Nations, …
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…Republicans gain control of the United States Senate, and they blocked ratification, some favoring isolationism and opposing the League of Nations, others lamenting the excessive reparations. As a result, the US never joined the League of Nations and later negotiated a separate peace treaty with Germany: the Treaty of Berlin of 1921 which confirmed the reparation payments and other provisions of the Treaty of Versailles but explicitly excluded all articles related to the League of Nations.
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