Aside from the actual diplomatic documents and some encyclopedia entries, there is only rather meager information available online dealing with the Paris Peace Conference and the resulting peace treaties. There is much more material available online in scholarly databases such as Proquest or JSTOR, but access to that material is not without charge.
Paris Peace Conference
- Wikipedia entry
- The Conference opening remarks of President Wilson and other leaders
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has an entry for the British Empire Delegation
- Part of James Shotwell's memoir At the Paris Peace Conference is available online, including Appendix IV - Difficulties in Treaty-Making: The Organization of the American Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference; Appendix V - The "British Empire" in the League Covenant; Appendix VI - Chronology of the Peace Conference; Appendix VII - The Organization of the American Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
The United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 is available online.
- volume 1
- volume 2
- volume 3
- volume 4
- volume 5
- volume 6
- volume 7
- volume 8
- volume 9
- volume 10
- volume 11
- volume 12
- volume 13
Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919)
- The Wikipedia entry.
- The text of the treaty is available in many places online
- The eyewitness account of the actual signing of the treaty by Harold Nicolson, Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
- Versailles and Peacemaking by Dr. Ruth Henig
- Jimmy Atkinson, The Treaty of Versailles and its Consequences
- Some classroom approaches to studying the treaty
- A summary of the treaty at Peace Treaty
- Take a peek at Australia's copy of the treaty
- text of the German Protest of the terms of the Treaty
- Have a look at the famous picture of the Signing of Treaty of Versailles.
Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye (10 September 1919)
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (27 November 1919)
- the Wikipedia entry
- the World War I Document Archive
- The Bulgarian State Archives has an information page on the treaty with some images
Treaty of Trianon (4 June 1920)
- the Wikipedia entry
- the World War I Document Archive; it is also available with protocol
- Map of Hungarian borders in November-December 1918 (before the treaty)
- There are numerous critiques of the treaty by Hungarian supporters, such as The Treaty of Trianon: A Hungarian Tragedy
Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920)
- the Wikipedia entry
- the World War I Document Archive; it is also at the Hellenic Resources Network
- there is a map illustrating the impact of the treaty
Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923)
- the Wikipedia entry
- the World War I Document Archive; it is also at the Hellenic Resources Network; see also the lengthy list of accompanying conventions
- an article from Time, Monday, 14 April 1924 on the Lausanne Treaty
Since the United States did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles, the country ended up signing individual "peace treaties" that ended the formal state of war and established peaceful relations with Germany (see also, for example, the World War I Document Archive), Austria (also at the World War I Document Archive) and Hungary (also at the World War I Document Archive) in 1921.
World War I Information
- History of World War I
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
- First World War.com
- BBC's World War One site has a variety of primary sources available dealing with the Great War. Check especially the site for teachers. Also, World War I Remembered: A BBC Special Report.
- PBS The Great War
- Russia and World War I, my remarks on Russia's war effort; The Great War, my remarks on the Great War for my history courses
- the World War I Document Archive.