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Versailles (Jan.-June, 1919) : The terms of peace were concluded; Germany's War guilt and reparations responsibility fixed; and the League of Nations formulated.
Paris (April-Dec., 1920): The League of Nations was set up with a Legislative Assembly and an Executive Council.
Brussels (Sept. and Dec., 1920): Two financial conferences were held, advising that international credit be organized through the League, and accepting Germany's offer to make payments in kind.
Washington (Nov. 1921 -Feb., 1922) : A conference called by U. S. President Harding, at which five treaties were negotiated and signed: 1) The Five-Power Treaty, eliminating competition in major naval armaments among the U. S., Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan; 2) The Poison Gas and Submarine Treaty among the same group of powers; 3) The Chino-Japanese Shantung Treaty; 4) A Nine-Power Treaty among the U. S., Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Japan. China and Portugal, which affirmed the "open door" doctrine, giving the powers equal trade opportunities in China, but guaranteed Chinese territorial integrity; 5) A second Nine-Power Treaty, in which these same nations bound themselves to provide for an increase in China's customs revenues at the Conference which is at present assembling at Peking (see CHINA).
Cannes (Jan., 1922) : A general conference at which Premier Briand negotiated an Anglo-French security pact which was never ratified.
Genoa and The Hague (April and June, 1922): Two economic conferences involving Russia, both of which proved largely abortive, except that the Genoa conference led to the Russo-German treaty of Rapallo.
Lausanne (Nov., 1922-July, 1923): A general conference concerning Allied-Grecian-Turkish affairs, which ended unsatisfactorily for all concerned.
Paris-Berlin (Jan.-April, 1924) : The Dawes and McKenna commissions established the status of German national wealth and the means of converting it into reparations payments.
Geneva (Sept.-Oct., 1924) : The Fifth Assembly of the League of Nations, at which another Anglo-French security pact was buried, and the subsequently British-killed protocol against war was drawn up.
Geneva (Nov.-Dec., 1924, and Jan.-Feb., 1925): The Opium Conference, from which the Chinese and U. S. delegates withdrew after it became apparent that the chief producing and distributing nations would not stop opium production in the near future.
Paris (Dec., 1924): The Council of Ambassadors, as executor of the Versailles Peace Treaty, decreed that Germany had not kept her disarmament obligations and that the evacuation of Cologne on Jan. 10, 1925, as originally provided, with reservations, would be delayed.