Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode,

we're revisiting the Paris Peace Conference of 1990 to 20,

where the victors of the First World War sought to resolve the aftermath of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history.

Was the resulting Treaty of Versailles too harsh on Germany?

Did the peacemakers create lasting problems in the Middle East?

And what effect did the Spanish flu have on proceedings?

Our expert for today is LSE Professor David Stevenson,

who's written numerous books on the First World War.

He was joined in conversation by BBC History Magazine editor Rob Atta.

As always with this format,

we're combining questions that you've submitted via social media

with popular internet search queries.

David, I wonder if first of all, we could just clarify the terminology here, because I think

some people tend to confuse the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles,

but they're not exactly the same thing, are they? No, the Paris Peace Conference is the general

name given for the peace

conference that drew up the peace treaties at the end of the First World War in 1919 to 1920.

And it's called the Paris Peace Conference, obviously, because the meetings were in Paris.

Most of them are actually at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is the Cadesolcée in central Paris.

It produced a series of peace treaties, not just at the Cadesolcée in central Paris. It produced a series

of peace treaties, not just with Germany, but also with Germany's former allies, their so-called

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