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1919
January
18
The Paris Peace Conference opens
On 18 January 1919, at the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay, President Poincaré opened the peace conference. The defeated and Russia were absent.
February
13
The Japanese racial equality proposal
On 13 February 1919 Nobuaki Makino proposed adding racial equality to the League of Nations Covenant. Australian and American opposition buried it.
June
28
Key event
The Treaty of Versailles
On 28 June 1919 Germany signed the peace in the Hall of Mirrors. It lost land and colonies, was disarmed, and Article 231 laid the blame for the war on it.
September
10
The Treaty of Saint-Germain
On 10 September 1919 Karl Renner signed peace with the Entente. Austria lost the Sudetenland and South Tyrol, was renamed and barred from union with Germany.
12
D'Annunzio seizes Fiume
On 12 September 1919 the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio led mutinous soldiers and volunteers into Fiume and proclaimed its union with Italy in defiance of Rome.
November
27
The Treaty of Neuilly
On 27 November 1919 Bulgaria signed peace with the Entente at Neuilly. It lost Western Thrace and access to the Aegean, and its army was cut to 20,000.
1920
January
21
The end of the Paris Peace Conference
On 21 January 1920 the peace conference's council met for the last time with Clemenceau. Day-to-day business passed to the Conference of Ambassadors.
June
04
The Treaty of Trianon
On 4 June 1920 Hungary signed peace with the Entente at Versailles. It lost two thirds of the kingdom's lands and over three million Hungarians ended up abroad.
August
10
The Treaty of Sèvres
On 10 August 1920 the Sultan's government signed a peace at Sèvres carving up the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal's movement overturned it by force.
1921
August
29
The US peace treaty with Hungary
On 29 August 1921 in Budapest the US made a separate peace with Hungary, taking its rights under the Treaty of Trianon but no responsibility for the borders.