Georges Clemenceau

20th Century

The Paris Peace Conference remakes the world map—dissolving four empires and creating new states from their wreckage. But the humiliating terms imposed on Ge…

• 1919 CE

  Versailles: seeds of future conflict

  The Paris Peace Conference remakes the world map—dissolving four empires and creating new states from their wreckage. But the humiliating terms imposed on Germany, the betrayal of colonial peoples who had fought for the Allies, and the redrawing of Middle Eastern borders plant grievances that fuel the next World War and 20th-century conflicts.