The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty with Germany. The treaty ended WWI as the peace treaty with which nation?

• A. Germany
• B. Austria-Hungary
• C. Japan
• D. Russia

Answer: (A)

The essential idea here is that the formal peace settlement that ended World War I was the Treaty of Versailles with Germany. After the war’s fighting ceased in 1918, the Allies negotiated terms that Germany had to accept, and the treaty was signed in 1919 at the Palace of Versailles. This treaty established the end of the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers and laid out reparations, territorial losses, and military restrictions, along with creating the League of Nations. Other defeated powers did not end the war through this agreement: Austria-Hungary had separate treaties as its empire dissolved, Russia had exited the war earlier through Brest-Litovsk and related arrangements, and while Japan participated in the broader negotiations, the treaty that formally concluded World War I was with Germany. So, the nation is Germany.