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The 162 pages that link to Treaty of Versailles, each with the reason it gives.

• Congress of ViennaCompared with: Versailles followed another major European war but imposed terms on a defeated Germany rather than restoring a balance among victors.

• Partitions of PolandCompared with: Unlike the partitions, it restored an independent Poland after the First World War.

• Treaty of Brest-LitovskCompared with: Its terms annulled Germany’s gains under Brest-Litovsk after Germany’s defeat.

• Treaty of TrianonCompared with: It was the better-known German settlement, while Trianon imposed a separate peace on Hungary.

• Paris Peace Treaties, 1947Compared with: Its German settlement contrasts with the absence of a comparable 1947 treaty for Germany.

• Armistice of MudrosCompared with: It was a formal peace treaty, unlike Mudros, which was an armistice.

• Treaty of San FranciscoCompared with: Its punitive settlement is often contrasted with the postwar reintegration of Japan.

• Washington Naval TreatyCompared with: Unlike Versailles, this agreement negotiated limits among major naval powers rather than imposing terms on a defeated state.

• Treaty of HudaybiyyahCompared with: Unlike Hudaybiyyah’s temporary truce, it was a postwar settlement imposing extensive terms.

• Boxer ProtocolCompared with: Both agreements imposed postwar penalties, but the Boxer Protocol followed an intervention in China.

• First Partition of PolandCompared with: Its postwar settlement recognized an independent Poland, reversing the disappearance initiated by the partitions.

• Moscow ArmisticeCompared with: Its comprehensive peace settlement contrasts with the 1944 armistice’s provisional terms, later formalized in 1947.

• Austrian State TreatyCompared with: Its restrictions on union between Germany and Austria anticipated a prohibition revived in 1955.

• Pope Benedict XVCompared with: Its punitive settlement diverged from Benedict’s preference for negotiated reconciliation.