Big Four (World War I)
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The Big Four or the Four Nations refer to the four top Allied powers of World War I and their leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919. The Big Four is also known as the Council o
The Council of Four from left to right: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris.
Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France
David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy
Treaty of Versailles
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The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. It was signed
Big Four (World War I)
…victory. Leading the French delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, Clemenceau insisted on Germany's disarmament and was never satisfied with the Versailles Treaty. He was the main antagonist of Woodrow Wilson, whose ideas he viewed as "too idealistic." For nearly the final year of World War One, he led France and…
Cover of the English version of the treaty.
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
German delegate Johannes Bell signing the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors, with various Allied delegations sitting and standing in front of him