The declaration of independence begins with the phrase the unaniusm declartion of the thirteen untited states of america

in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of

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On November 11, 1918, Germany finally signed the armistice ending the First World War, in which the allied powers emerged victorious. In 1919 the representatives of the winning powers met in Paris to elaborate the Peace treaties; these treaties showed the consequences they had to pay to the defeated countries.