ABSTRACT
The Treaty of Versailles, negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference and signed by the victorious powers and Germany in June 1919, set the agenda for European diplomacy for twenty years. Its terms were central to the confrontation between supporters and opponents of the new international status quo. It was at issue in crises ranging from the Ruhr in 1923 to the Rhineland in 1936 and the Sudetenland in 1938, and formed the pretext for the German attack on Danzig that unleashed World War II.
