Peace of Westphalia

The Peace of Westphalia (German: Westflischer Friede) was a series of peace treaties signed
between May and October 1648 in Osnabrck and Mnster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years'
War (16181648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and theEighty Years' War (15681648)
between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the
Dutch Republic.
The Peace of Westphalia involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III; the Kingdom of Spain;
the Kingdom of France; theSwedish Empire; the Dutch Republic; the Princes of the Holy Roman
Empire; and sovereigns of the free imperial cities. The treaties that comprised the peace settlement
were:

The Peace of Mnster[1] between the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Spain on 30
January 1648, ratified in Mnster on 15 May 1648; and

Two complementary treaties both signed on 24 October 1648, namely:

The Treaty of Mnster (Instrumentum Pacis Monasteriensis, IPM),[2] between the Holy
Roman Emperor and France and their respective allies.

The Treaty of Osnabrck (Instrumentum Pacis Osnabrugensis, IPO),[3] involving

the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of France, Sweden and their respective allies.

The treaties did not restore peace throughout Europe, but they did create a basis for national selfdetermination.
The Peace of Westphalia established the precedent of peaces established by diplomatic congress,[4]
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and a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based
upon the concept of co-existing sovereign states. Inter-state aggression was to be held in check by
a balance of power. A prejudice was established against interference in another nation's domestic
affairs. As European influence spread across the globe, these Westphalian principles, especially the
concept of sovereign states, became central to international law and to the prevailing world order.[6]

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Treaty of Versailles
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This article is about the Treaty of Versailles of 28 June 1919, at the end of World War I. For other
uses, see Treaty of Versailles (disambiguation).

Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Peace between the Allied and
Associated Powers and Germany[1]

Cover of the English version

Signed

28 June 1919[2]

Location

Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of

Versailles in France[3]

Effective

10 January 1920[4]

Condition Ratification by Germany and four Principal

Allied Powers.[1]

Signatori
es

Central Powers
Germany[1]

Allied Powers
United States[1]
British Empire[1]
France[1]
Italy[1]

Japan[1]

Other Allied Powers[show]

Depositar French Government[5]

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Language French and English[5]
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The Signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles (French: Trait de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end
of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on
28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The
other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties.
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Although thearmistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months
of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conferenceto conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was
registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919, and was printed in The
League of Nations Treaty Series.
Of the many provisions in the treaty, one of the most important and controversial required "Germany
[to] accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage" during
the war (the other members of the Central Powers signed treaties containing similar articles). This
article, Article 231, later became known as the War Guilt clause. The treaty forced Germany to
disarm, make substantial territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had
formed the Entente powers. In 1921 the total cost of these reparations was assessed at 132 billion
Marks (then $31.4 billion or 6.6 billion, roughly equivalent to US $442 billion or UK 284 billion in
2015). At the time economists, notably John Maynard Keynes, predicted that the treaty was too
harsh a "Carthaginian peace", and said the reparations figure was excessive and counterproductive, views that, since then, have been the subject of ongoing debate by historians and
economists from several countries.
The result of these competing and sometimes conflicting goals among the victors was a compromise
that left none contented: Germany was neither pacified nor conciliated, nor was it permanently
weakened. The problems that arose from the treaty would lead to the Locarno Treaties, which
improved relations between Germany and the other European Powers, and the re-negotiation of the
reparation system resulting in the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, and the indefinite postponement of
reparations at the Lausanne Conference of 1932.