After the Treaty of Versailles, the victorious Allies of 1945 did not repeat the mistakes of 1919. They demanded an unconditional surrender from the defeated Nazi regime.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed June 28, 1919. So why don’t countries formalize peace today? Here’s how peace treaties have changed in the past 100 years. June 28, 2019.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy with the formal conclusion to the bloodbath.

A century ago, Japan submitted a proposal for racial equality in the Treaty of Versailles. The U.S. struck it down. What followed had implications for World War II and Japanese Americans.

The Treaty of Versailles was the peace agreement signed after World War I on June 28th, 1919. The treaty was negotiated by the victors of World War I with little input from Germany.

This war is the effect of the vindictive Treaty of Versailles, the continual failure to treat Germany as an equal, and the other blunders of French and British diplomacy.

European leaders signed the treaty in the Palace of Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors—the very place where the German Empire had been created, and Wilhelm II’s father made emperor, in 1871.