The versaille treaty served as an armistice signed at the end of WW1. It took 6 months of negotiating in the Paris peace conference until the actual fighting ended. It was signed on June 28, 1919 and ended the state of war between Germany and the Allies. However, it took 6 months of negotiating at the Paris peace conference to end the actual fighting. The “Big Four”: David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States, the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles. It was also the guidelines for what Germany had to do after the war. Fourteen Points became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Treaty of Versailles, however, had little to do with the Fourteen Points, germany felt betrayed, and was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.
Italy had demanded the Dalmatian coast where an Italian minority lived, but Wilson was against this, and the Italian representative, Orlando was embittered and left the conference. offer Trentino(italy) to the Brenner, the Dalmatian port of Zara, the Island of Lagosta and a couple of small German colonies. All other territories were promised to other nations and the great powers were worried about Italy's imperial ambitions. As a result of this Orlando left the conference in a rage. The French had control over of the west bank of the Rhine, but the United States and England opposed this. The French acquired 15-year occupation rights in the coal-rich Saar Basin, and were allowed to annex Alsace-Lorraine. The United States demanded no reparations, but did insist on payment of inter-Allied debts. Since the Allies relied on reparations to enable them to pay their debts to the United States, the two issues were related.
This Treaty was designed to make Germany pay for the war that it had allegedly started. Another aim was to weaken Germany. the Rhineland was demilitarized,...