List of participants to Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Map of the World with the Participants in World War I. The Allies are depicted in green, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey.
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 gathered 27 nations at the Palace of Versailles to shape the future after World War I. The Russian SFSR was not invited to attend, having already concluded a peace treaty with the Central Powers in the spring of 1918. The Central Powers - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire - were not allowed to attend the conference until after the details of all the peace treaties had been elaborated and agreed upon.
Negotiating Delegations
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada (signed under 'British Empire')
- Great Britain
- China[1]
- Cuba
- Czechoslovakia
- France
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- The Hejaz (later absorbed into Saudi Arabia)
- Honduras
- Italy
- Japan
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Montenegro
- Nicaragua
Germany
- Panama
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Siam
- United States (see also American Commission to Negotiate Peace)
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Other Representatives
- The unrecognized Irish Republic sent representatives in hope the republic declared at the Easter Rising in 1916 would be recognised, but they were ignored.
- Faisal's party at the Paris Peace Conference included Lawrence of Arabia.
- Vietnam sent delegates to represent its interests independently from France and French Indo-China, but like the Irish delegation they were also ignored.
- Several Zionist representatives also attended the conference, seeking support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
- Sālote Tupou III of Tonga also sent a small delegation.
References
- ↑ At the time of the Paris Peace Conference there were two governments claiming to be the legitimate government of China: the Beiyang Government in Beijing, and Dr Sun Yat-sen's Guangzhou based Kuomintang (KMT) movement .However, they worked together to create the united diplomatic team that would plead Chinas case in Paris.
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