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Treaty of Versailles

noun

The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans.

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... reply was delayed until Jan. 11, but at least it met the President's request for details. It laid down the specifications of what the allied powers would regard as a just peace, and the bulk of that program was eventually to be written into the Treaty of Versailles. But at the time, of course, it was evident that the belligerents were further from agreement than they thought, or at any rate than the President thought. Of such terms Germany would hear nothing; ...

— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

Words linked to "Treaty of Versailles" : pacification, peace, peace treaty