David Lloyd George was most responsible for forging a compromise on a peace settlement after World War I, the Treaty of Versailles.
The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty of peace that was signed in the city of Versailles at the end of the First World War by more than fifty countries.This treaty officially ended with the state of war between Germany and the Allies of the First World War. It was signed on June 28, 1919 exactly five years after the Sarajevo bombing in which the archduke Francisco Fernando was murdered, the direct cause of the war. Although the armistice was signed months before (November 11, 1918) to end hostilities on the battlefield, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The Treaty of Versailles came into force on January 10, 1920.
George contributed decisively to the treaty acquiring a strong anti-German tone. Of the many provisions of the treaty, one of the most important and controversial provisions stipulated that the Central Powers (Germany and its allies) would accept all moral and material responsibility for having caused the war and, under the terms of articles 231 to 248, should disarm, make important territorial concessions to the victors and pay exorbitant economic compensation to the victorious States.
