Treaty of Versailles
Dignitaries gathered in the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) at the Palace of Versailles for the signing of the peace treaty ending World War I, 1919.
Paris Peace Conference
1919–1920
Paris Peace Conference, (1919–20), the meeting that inaugurated the international settlement after World War I. Although hostilities had been brought formally to an end by a series of armistices between the Allies and their adversaries—that of Salonika (Thessaloníka) with Bulgaria on September 29, 1918, that of Mudros with Turkey on October 30, that of Villa Giusti with Austria-Hungary on November 3, and that of Rethondes with Germany on November 11—the conference did not open until...