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The War of the League of Augsburg. The War of the League of Augsburg (also known as the Nine Years' War) ended with the Treaty of Ryswick.
Bourbon. The war was fought to keep the Spanish and French thrones from being united. The treaties granted the Bourbon candidate, Philip, the crown, but stipulated neither he nor his descendants could ever claim the French throne.
1957. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty turned the EC into the EU we have today.
The Great Northern War. The death of Charles XII in 1718 paved the way for Peter the Great to formalize the gains he had made during the war.
Treaty of St. Germain. Neuilly was with Bulgaria, Sevres with Turkey, and Trianon with Hungary.
Parisians formed a commune in protest of the conservative government. The 1871 Paris Commune was brutally put down by Adolphe Thiers's troops after a few weeks.
5:5:3. The sizes of the French and Italian navies were also set at a little more than half of Japan's. A follow-up was signed in London in 1930, but they didn't do much do stop the coming of WWII.
Treaty of Nanking. This Opium War Treaty gave Britain in perpetuity Hong Kong island, a few other nearby islands, and a small strip of mainland China (Kowloon). The rest of present-day Hong Kong was leased to Britain in 1898.
Vietnam. Following their defeat at Dienbienphu, the French decided they had had enough of Indochina. The Accords also dealt with Laos and Cambodia, but the main result was a temporary splitting of Vietnam along the 17th prior to nationwide elections.
World War I. It was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France on June 28, 1919.
Russo-Japanese War. The Treaty was mediated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, and he won the Noble Peace Prize for it.
| The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, between the U.S. and Spain, involved the purchase by the U.S. of the eastern part of what state from Spain? | Treaties Through History
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Florida. Seminole Indians frequently raided Georgia, then returned to Spanish territory in eastern Florida.
| The Treaty of Tordesillas, negotiated in 1493, between Spain and Portugal, drew a boundary line through what continent? | Treaties Through History
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South America. The treaty drew a line approximately 1,770km west of the Cape Verde Islands. Spain was granted unclaimed land west of the line, Portugal unclaimed land east of the line.
War of 1812. Ghent, a city in Belgium, was the site in 1814, of this treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain which essentially restored the territory taken by each side during the conflict.
| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, among other things, settled the border disputes between what two countries in 1842? | Treaties Through History
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U.S. and British North America. The Treaty was written by Daniel Webster, Secretary of State and British Foreign Secretary Lord Ashburton. Some border disputes, especially along the Maine-Canadian border, escalated into mini-wars.
Panama Canal. This treaty, ratified in 1904, granted the U.S. a renewable 99 year lease in exchange for {$10} million and {$250,000} a year.
1774. It was signed between Russia and Turkey at the end of the first of the Russo-Turkish Wars undertaken by Catherine II of Russia against Sultan Mustafa III of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). It was signed at the village of Kuchuk Kainarji, now Kaynardzha, NE Bulgaria, in the Dobruja, near the Danube and SE of Silistra. The treaty ceded Kerch and several other Black Sea ports in the Crimea to Russia and declared the rest of the khanate of Crimea independent. Russian trading ships were allowed to navigate in Turkish waters. Moldavia and Walachia were restored to the suzerainty of the Sultan, but Russia obtained the right of intervening with the Sublime Porte (the sultan's court) on behalf of those two principalities. Russia furthermore acquired certain rights of representation on behalf of the Greek Orthodox subjects of the Sultan. By a separate treaty (1775) Turkey ceded Bukovina to Austria. The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji facilitated the eventual Russian annexation (1783) of the Crimea and was the basis of the later claims of Russia as protector of the Christians in the Ottoman Empire. The Russian ascendancy over Turkey, of which the treaty was a symptom, made the Eastern Question acute. Varied spellings include the forms Kutchuk and Kainardji.It's pronounced as 'koochook kinarj'. Turk, 'kuchuk kinarja'.
1935. It was a plan for a peaceful settlement to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in Oct 1935. It was devised by Samuel Hoare (1880-1959), British foreign secretary, and Pierre Laval, French premier, at the request of the League of Nations. Realizing no European country was willing to go to war over Ethiopia, Hoare and Laval proposed official recognition of Italian claims.
1939. Better known as the nonaggression pact, it was signed by Germany and the USSR on 23 August. Under the terms of the treaty both countries agreed to remain neutral and to refrain from acts of aggression against each other if either went to war. Secret clauses allowed for the partition of Poland - German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was to acquire western Poland, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin the eastern part. On 1st Sept 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. The pact ended when Hitler invaded Russia 22 June 1941.
1978. It was signed by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela to protect and control the industrial or commercial development of the Amazon River.
| When was the Treaty of London signed which forbade Denmark from incorporating Schleswig-Holstein into her territory? | Treaties and Pacts - III
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Treaty of Utrecht. The Treaty of Utrecht, signed in 1713, marked the declining power of France and the growing worldwide strength of Britain. The treaty recognized Philip as king of Spain, but France agreed that Spain and France would never unite under one ruler. Britain gained the Spanish colonies of Gibraltar and Minorca and received a contract to supply all the Spanish colonies in America with African slaves. In North America, France gave Britain the territory around Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mainland Nova Scotia region of Acadia.
Treaty of Paris. The treaty gave the United Kingdom almost all French land in Canada and, to the south, all of France's holdings east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans. France kept two tiny islands south of Newfoundland--St. Pierre and Miquelon--and the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Treaty of Ghent. Signed at Ghent, Belgium, on Dec. 24, 1814, the treaty simply restored the situation existing before the war, and settled none of the disputes that had caused the war.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Under the treaty, the United States acquired from Mexico the regions of California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
Treaty of Paris. The Crimean War, fought between Russian forces and the allied armies of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), and Sardinia, was the first war to be covered by newspaper reporters and photographers at the front.
Treaty of Frankfurt. The treaty provided that France would give most of Alsace and part of Lorraine to Germany, pay Germany 1 billion dollars, and support a German army of occupation until the sum was paid.
Treaty of Ancon. Under the treaty, Chile gained control from Peru and Bolivia of Atacama Desert land containing valuable nitrate deposits and other minerals.
Treaty of Vereeniging. The Boers agreed to stop fighting and swear allegiance to King Edward VII. The British allowed all prisoners to go home, and agreed not to punish anyone for his or her part in the war.
Treaty of Portsmouth. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt arranged a peace conference at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which resulted in the end of the war. Japan's victory over Russia in the war brought it recognition as a major world power.
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