Treaty of Versailles

- 1919 settlement with Germany at the end of WWI

- began with Wilson’s 14 points: permanent peace, “self-determination of all peoples,” and League of Nations

- however, propaganda had portrayed Germany as responsible for the war and Germany was made to pay (esp. by Britain and France)

- disarmed, could not build air force, navy reduced

- war-guilt provision: Germany made to pay massive reparations