World's War Events

Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.

Treaty of Peace with Germany

29 pages in this part of World's War Events.

Treaty of Peace with Germany

THE preamble names as parties of the one part the United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, described as the Five Allied…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: League

SECTION I LEAGUE OF NATIONS Specific duties of the League of Nations The covenant of the League of Nations constitutes Section I of the…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: State

The members of the League will be the signatories of the covenant and other States invited to accede who must lodge a declaration of…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Council

COUNCIL Meetings at least once a year The Council will consist of representatives of the Five Great Allied Powers, together with…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Prussia

Germany cedes to France Alsace-Lorraine, 5,600 square miles to the southwest, and to Belgium two small districts between Luxemburg and…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: French

How French citizenship may be acquired.

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Contracts

For five years manufactured products of Alsace-Lorraine will be admitted to Germany free of duty to a total amount not exceeding in any…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: France

Various clauses adjust the general provisions of the treaty to the special conditions of Alsace-Lorraine, certain matters of execution…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: German

SECTION IV GERMAN AUSTRIA Independence to be recognized. "Germany recognizes the total independence of German Austria in the boundaries…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Poland

Germany cedes to Poland the greater part of Upper Silesia, Posen and the province of West Prussia on the left bank of the Vistula. A Field…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Danzig

DANZIG Danzig to be under League of Nations.

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Island

The commission shall insure a free and secret vote in three zones. That between the German-Danish frontier and a line running south of the…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Morocco

MOROCCO Germany to renounce rights in Morocco.

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Egypt

EGYPT To recognize British Protectorate over Egypt.

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Kiao-Chau

SHANTUNG To cede Kiao-Chau rights to Japan.

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Military

SECTION VI MILITARY, NAVAL AND AIR In order to render possible the initiation of a general limitation of the armaments of all nations…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Conscription

Conscription is abolished in Germany. The enlisted personnel must be maintained by voluntary enlistments for terms of twelve consecutive…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Section

SECTION VII RESPONSIBILITIES William II. charged with responsibility for war. "The allied and associated powers publicly arraign William…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Governments

SECTION VIII REPARATION AND RESTITUTION Germany's responsibility for loss and damage. "The allied and associated Governments affirm, and…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Allies

At the same time a schedule of payments to discharge the obligation within thirty years shall be presented. These payments are subject to…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Belgium

This sum being included in, and not additional to, the first thousand million bond issue referred to below, with the understanding that…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Reparation

In periodically estimating Germany's capacity to pay, the Reparation Commission shall examine the German system of taxation, first to the…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Commission

The Commission may require Germany to give from time to time by way of guarantee, issues of bonds or other obligations to cover such claims…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Interest

Certificates to represent bonds or goods.

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Reparations

In order to effect payment by deliveries in kind, Germany is required, for a limited number of years, varying in the case of each, to…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Louvain

The German Government is also to restore to the French Government certain papers taken by the German authorities in 1870, belonging then to…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Pre-war

Pre-war contracts between allied and associated nationals excepting the United States, Japan, and Brazil and German nationals are cancelled…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Danube

The Elbe from the junction of the Ultava, the Ultava from Prague, the Oder from Oppa, the Niemen from Grodno, and the Danube from Ulm are…

Treaty of Peace with Germany: Rhine-Meuse

Belgium is to be permitted to build a deep draft Rhine-Meuse canal if she so desires with in twenty-five years, in which case Germany must…

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