📅 28 June 1919
The Versailles settlement stripped Germany of its overseas colonies and placed them under League of Nations mandates administered by victorious powers. The arrangement was described as international...
📅 28 June 1919
The treaty imposed territorial losses, military limits, reparations, and war responsibility language on Germany. Colonized peoples and many smaller nations were excluded from equal decision-making....
📅 25 April 1920
Allied powers assigned mandates over Iraq and Palestine to Britain and Syria and Lebanon to France. The League framework called mandates a form of tutelage, yet decisions were made without popular...
📅 18 January 1919
The victorious powers opened the conference to negotiate treaties and borders. Delegations from smaller states and activists from colonized societies sought a voice, but the Great Powers controlled...
📅 30 January 1919
On 30 January, the Paris Peace Conference's Supreme Council agreed to allocate former German and Ottoman territories through a League of Nations mandate framework. The language of trusteeship and...
📅 28 June 1919
The treaty signed at Versailles on 28 June imposed territorial, military, and financial terms on Germany. It entered into force on 10 January 1920. Germany's overseas colonies were transferred into...
