Today: The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, Ending World War I.

   The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand . The otherCentral Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. Although thearmistice , signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919