[World War I Treaties - Germany]: [Treaty of Versailles]:

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TRAITE DE PAIX ENTRE LES PUISSANCES ALLIEES ET ASSOCIEES ET L'ALLEMAGNE ET PROTOCOLE SIGNES A VERSAILLES, LE 28 JUIN 1919...TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS AND GERMANY AND ... Official French printing of the Treaty of Versailles, a document of monumental importance in American and world history. The treaty, made with Germany at the end of the First World War, concluded a war of unrivalled devastation while sowing the seeds for the Second World War, just twenty years on the horizon. The United States, guided by Woodrow Wilson's vision, played a central role in the crafting of the treaty. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, however, based on the objection of several senators to the Covenant of the League of Nations (which was included as Part I of the settlement), thereby largely removing American influence and involvement from the international scene in the inter-war period.The Treaty of Versailles was a wide-ranging and ambitious document, which sought not only to address the immediate postwar settlement, but to punish Germany for its actions in starting and prosecuting the war, attempted to remake the map of Europe, and created a supra-national political organization, the League of Nations. The Covenant of the League of Nations comprises the first part of the treaty. The next most famous part is that dealing with reparations, which includes Article 231, the infamous "war guilt clause." By this article Germany accepted the responsibility of

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