On November 11, 1918, the First World War came to an end.

Or to be more precise, the fighting stopped.

For the next eight months, however, a final peace treaty was hammered out,

and hanging over the negotiations was the very real threat that fighting could break out again.

In the end, the treaty ended the world's greatest war and it might have been the starting point for an even worse one.

Learn more about the treaty of Versailles, the agreement which ended World War I on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. November 11th is honored as armistist Day, Remembrance Day, or Veterans Day in countries around the world.

This was the day in 1918 when the Great War, the War to End All Wars, finally ended.

However, while it was the end of the fighting, it wasn't the end of the

conflict per se. The terms of the peace still had to be hammered out, and the armistice

wasn't necessarily a permanent thing. While no one really wanted to start fighting again, the threat of

resuming hostilities was always in the air. Before I get into the details of the Paris Peace

Conference that led to the Treaty of Versailles, I should note a few things about how the peace was negotiated.

The central powers in the war, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, all had separate

peace treaties which were negotiated and signed with the allies.

As the Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up, separate treaties were signed with both new countries.

The Treaty of St. Romain and lay was the Treaty with the New Republic of Austria.

They had to give up some territory which formed the basis of the New Republic of Czechoslovakia.

The United States signed a separate treaty with Austria. The Treaty of La Zen was the treaty signed with the New Turkish

Republic and the Treaty of Newly Sir Seine was the treaty that ended the war with

Bulgaria. The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty that was only signed with Germany which was by far the largest

belligerent of the Central Powers. The Paris Peace Conference convened about two

months after the armistice was signed in January of 1919. All of the parties which entered the conference had their own

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