= Spa Conference = The '''Spa Conference''' was an international conference held in [[Belgium/Spa|Spa]]. The conference served as a re-negotiation of the [[WorldHistory/TreatyOfVersailles|Treaty of Versailles]], and an intervention into border wars between [[Czechia/TomasMasaryk|Czechoslovakia]] and [[Poland/JozefPilsudski|Poland]]. <> ---- == History == The conference met in July 1920. It principally included [[UnitedKingdom/DavidLloydGeorge|George]], [[France/AlexandreMillerand|Millerand]], [[Germany/ConstantinFehrenbach|Fehrenbach]]. These were the first negotiations following [[WorldHistory/WorldWar1|World War 1]] to which Germany was invited to send a delegation. === German Reparations === The conference was largely a precursor to the [[WorldHistory/DawesPlan|Dawes Plan]], which precipitated from the precise situation that this conference failed to resolve: the coal payment schedule was not feasible and [[France/RaymondPoincare|France]] stood by its threat to re-invade Germany. === Cieszyn Silesia === At roughly the same time, there was rapidly escalating conflict between [[Czechia/TomasMasaryk|Czechoslovakia]] and [[Poland/JozefPilsudski|Poland]] in [[WorldHistory/CieszynSilesia|Cieszyn Silesia]]. The conference arbitrarily partitioned the region. The Czech side became '''Trans-Olza'''. ---- CategoryRicottone