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David Lloyd George

British prime minister (1916–1922) who introduced social insurance as chancellor, led the wartime coalition and represented Britain at the Paris Peace Conference

A Liberal raised in Wales, as chancellor he introduced the “People’s Budget” of 1909, taxing the rich more heavily, and began health and unemployment insurance with the National Insurance Act of 1911. In the war he boosted shell production as minister of munitions and in 1916 became prime minister at the head of a war cabinet. At Paris he steered between Clemenceau and Wilson to secure British interests. He concluded the 1921 treaty creating the Irish Free State and fell the next year when the Conservatives left his coalition.

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  1. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conferencediplomat

    Delegates of the victorious powers met in Paris to draw up the peace treaties with the defeated states. Led by Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George, the conference created the Versailles settlement.

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    1919Treaty of Versaillesdiplomat

    The peace treaty between the Allies and Germany signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Germany accepted responsibility for the war, lost territory and colonies, had its armed forces restricted and was saddled with huge reparations.

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  • World War I and the Russian Revolution1908 – 1923

    From the Balkan crises to a war of trenches and total mobilization that toppled four empires; the Russian Revolution it unleashed, which created the first socialist state; and the Versailles settlement of national self-determination and the League of Nations