# Versailles reference to the Treaty of Versailles, the treaty that officially ended World War I, signed at the Palace of Versailles in France. The leading figures at the treaty negotiations were Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States. The treaty required Germany to give up land and much of its army and navy and to pay extensive reparations for damages to civilians in the war. German discontent over the terms of the Treaty of Versailles led to the outbreak of World War II.