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Post-war peace treaties

At the end of the First World War a conference was held in Paris to negotiate a peace settlement for Europe. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference resulted in a number of peace treaties.

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Start of negotiations

Cabinet Conclusion 3. Allied conferences in Paris. Prime Minister's statement. 11th October 1918 (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 4. Representation of the United States in Europe. 11th October 1918 (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 8 App 1. Conclusions of conferences in Paris, October 5th to October 9th 1918. 11th October 1918. (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion. Preparation of brief for Peace Conference. 17th October 1918. (PDF, 0.913MB)

The Fourteen Points

Cabinet Conclusion 1. The League of Nations: Publication of the Philimore report. 13 August 1918. (PDF, 2.265MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 9. League of Nations. 2 October 1918 (PDF, 1.685MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 5 App 1. Letter from Mr. C. Barclay to Mr. Balfour. 15 October 1918 (PDF, 2.560MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Peace and armistice proposals: President Wilson's reply to Germany. 24 October 1918. (PDF, 1.704MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 5. Peace and armistice proposals: President Wilson's reply. 15 October 1918 (PDF, 2.560MB)

The armistice of 1918

Cabinet Conclusion 3. Allied conferences in Paris. Prime Minister's statement. 11 October 1918 (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 8 App 1. Conclusions of conferences in Paris, October 5th to October 9 1918. 11th October 1918. (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 8 App 2. Conditions of armistice with Germany. 11 October 1918 (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 8 App 3. Conditions of armistice. 11 October 1918 (PDF, 3.952MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 9. Peace and armistice proposals: freedom of the sea. 14 October 1918. (PDF, 1.339MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 5. Peace and armistice proposals: President Wilson's reply. 15 October 1918. (PDF, 2.560MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Peace and armistice proposals: President Wilson's reply to Germany. 24 October 1918. (PDF, 1.704MB)

Objectives

Cabinet Conclusion 9. Future government of the Middle East. 14th October 1918. (PDF, 1.340MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 9 App 1. Future government of the Middle East. 14th October 1918. (PDF, 1.340MB)

Cabinet Memorandum on President Wilson's speeches as a basis of negotiation. 12 October 1918 (PDF, 2.805MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Peace Aims. Letter from the Federation of British Industries. 30 January 1919 (PDF, 5.803MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Peace Aims. Letter from the Federation of British Industries. 18 February 1919 (PDF, 2.296MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Reparation for Acts of Devastation. 24 September 1918 (PDF, 0.603MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. The Question of Italian Claims. 11 December 1918 (PDF, 1.348MB)

Five peace treaties

Cabinet Memorandum. Report of the Sub-Committee on the Peace Conference appointed to consider the organisation of the reparation commission. 4 August 1919 (PDF, 1.870MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Report of the Sub-Committee on the Peace Conference appointed to consider the organisation of the reparation commission. 9 August 1919 (PDF, 1.322MB)

Cabinet Memorandum on the necessity for the immediate Ratification of the Peace Treaty with Austria. 12 February 1920 (PDF, 0.408MB)

Cabinet Memorandum on Bulgaria. 27 June 1919 (PDF, 2.209MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Armistice with Turkey. 15th October 1918. (PDF, 2.561MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 4. Armistice with Turkey. 17th October 1918. (PDF, 0.914 MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Maps illustrating memorandum respecting the settlement of Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula. 21 November 1918 (PDF, 8.770MB)

Treaty difficulties

Cabinet Memorandum for the Prime Minister on the immediate preparation of the British case for reparations. 3 July 1919 (PDF, 1.956MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. German Reparations. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 23 May 1922 (PDF, 4.533MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Reparations. 5 October 1923 (PDF, 2.752MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Report of the First Committee of Experts. April 1924 (PDF, 53.699MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Report of the Second Committee of Experts. April 1924 (PDF, 5.360MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Telegram from Lord Curzon regarding the Treaty Presented to Turkey. 31 January 1923 (PDF, 0.854MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Draft Terms of Peace presented to the Turkish Delegation at Lausanne. 31 January 1923 (PDF, 29.7MB)

Search using Fourteen Points Treaty of St Germain Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of Sevres

Further reading

Marks, S., The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe 1918-1933 (London: Macmillan, 1976)
Dockrill, M.L. & Gould, J.D., Peace without Promise: Britain and the Peace Conferences 1919-1923 (London: Batsford, 1981)

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