175: The Paris Peace Conference

The four Allied leaders who were the major figures at the Paris Peace Conference. From left to right: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson.

The end of the war came suddenly and left the Allies scrambling to set up the peace conference that would negotiate the treaty that would formally end the Great War.

The first item on the agenda, at Woodrow Wilson’s insistence, would be the League of Nations.

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