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"We want a peace which will be just, but not vindictive...    Above all, we want to protect the future against a repetition of the horrors of this war."

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"America is far away, protected by the ocean.  Not even Napoleon himself could touch England. You are both sheltered; we are not. Mr Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points why, God Almighty has only ten!"

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"It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression."

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The Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) was the international meeting of victorious Allied powers held after World War I to set peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

It resulted in five major treaties most notably the Treaty of Versailles with Germany.

Other formal settlements:

Austria: Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Bulgaria: Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine

Hungary: Treaty of Trianon

Ottoman Empire: Treaty of Sèvres.

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The conference was dominated by the leaders of the four most powerful Allied nations, who met informally over 140 times to make major decisions.

1. Woodrow Wilson: President of the USA

2. Georges Clemenceau: Prime Minister of France

3. David Llyod George: Prime Minister of Britain

4. Vittorio Orlando: Prime Minister of Italy

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The primary aims of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 were to establish peace terms with the defeated Central Powers, redraw national borders, and establish an international body to prevent future conflicts, the League of Nations.