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Add new Web site: Oxford Public International Law - Versailles Peace Treaty (1919). Sep 26, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 21, 2026
Add new Web site: The National Archives - The Treaty of Versailles. Mar 21, 2026
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Treaty of Versailles and its consequences. Sep 27, 2025
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Treaty of Versailles. Apr 13, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Ohio State University - Origins - The Versailles Treaty Fight. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Portland State University - PDXScholar - Edith Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles. Dec 02, 2024
Add new Web site: EHNE Digital Encyclopedia of European History - The Paris Peace Conference (1919). Oct 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Yale Law School - Lillian Goldman Law Library - The Avalon Project - TThe Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919. Sep 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Gresham College - The Treaty of Versailles: A Hundred Years Later. Jun 16, 2024
Add new Web site: National Museum of Australia - Versailles Treaty. May 06, 2024
Add new Web site: 1914-1918 Online - International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Treaty of Versailles. Jan 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Museum of Australian Democracy - The Treaty of Peace between The Allied Powers and Germany and the Treaty Between France and Great Britain. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Treaty of Versailles. Sep 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Palace of Versailles - The Treaty of Versailles, 1919. Apr 24, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Jan 06, 2023
Add new Web site: Holocaust Encyclopedia - Treaty of Versailles. Aug 18, 2022
Rearranged media. Aug 19, 2021
Article revised and expanded. Aug 16, 2021
Deleted duplicate video. Jan 06, 2020
Cross-references added. Jan 03, 2020
Corrected display issue. Oct 28, 2019
Corrected display issue. Jul 21, 2017
Video added. Jun 09, 2015
Added photograph. Jul 13, 2011
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Treaty of Versailles. Nov 18, 2008
Added new Web site: United States History - Treaty of Versailles, 1919. Aug 07, 2008
Added new Web site: U.S.Department of State - Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles. Mar 18, 2008
Cross-references added. Dec 08, 2006
Article revised. Apr 07, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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