What treaty formally ended World War I between the Allied Powers and Germany?
The Treaty of Versailles, signed in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles on 28 June 1919 — five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — imposed substantial reparations and territorial losses on Germany. Brest-Litovsk was the separate German-Russian peace; Sèvres and Trianon were the separate Ottoman and Hungarian peaces. The treaty's harsh terms are widely credited as a contributing cause of WWII.
Read the full facts →World War I was a global war fought from 1914 to 1918, primarily between the Allied Powers (France, Britain, Russia, Italy, the United States and others) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria). It killed approximately 20 million people and reshaped the political map of Europe and the Middle East.
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