The treaty of versailles

• once the armistice was signed, the allied leaders decided the terms of the peace
• The peace treaty was eventually signed in a French palace at Versailles, near Paris, on 28th June 1919
• Peace was popular with the German people, as they had suffered during the war.
• Even so, the terms of the treaty of versailles were very unpopular with the German people, and this also made the Weimar Republic unpopular.