Treaties Trivia

1. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28th June 1919 - exactly five years after which significant event?

From Quiz Treaty of Versailles

Answer: The assassination of Franz Ferdinand

On 28th June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo by the Serbian Black Hand. This was one of the main short-term causes of World War I. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28th July 1914; Germany invaded Belgium on 4th August 1914 and the UK declared war on Germany later the same day.

From Quiz A-Z Famous Peace Treaties

Answer: Amiens

As a result, England surrendered all colonial conquests (except Ceylon and Trinidad). The French, in turn, abandoned Egypt.

From Quiz Name The Treaty

Answer: Treaty of Ghent

Ghent (also spelled Gent) is a city in Belgium. The treaty was signed on December 24, 1814. The treaty set most land boundaries and fishing rights the way they were before, but did end the war. An interesting sidenote: the news of the treaty didn't reach the U.S. for two weeks, and the Battle of New Orleans took place early in January, 1815.

From Quiz Treaties Which Have Changed the World

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Trick or Treaty

Answer: Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

The growing threat and fear of the spread of Italian fascism led by Benito Mussolini caused British and French foreign ministers, Samuel Hoare and Pierre Laval, to propose the Hoare-Laval Pact. The treaty would have essentially ceded control of most of Abyssinia to Italy without a fight. When details of the treaty leaked, the public was outraged at Hoare and Laval for appearing to appease Hitler and his allies. Both men were sacked in humiliating fashion and the treaty was never even considered by either country's government.

From Quiz Treaties and Pacts - I

Answer: 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'.

From Quiz Treaties Through History

Answer: World War I

It was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France on June 28, 1919.

From Quiz Treaties, Peaces, and Agreements

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Treaty of Versailles

Answer: Britain, France, America

Germany lost the war and was not allowed to negotiate. The "Big Three" nations were America, France and Britain, led by Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, respectively.

From Quiz Don't Stop Agreeing

Answer: England and France

The treaty's terms called for an English force of 12,000 men to help fight the Spanish in Flanders, as well use of the English fleet. It merged the Anglo-Spanish War (1654-1660) with the much longer Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659). The treaty was signed May 9, 1657.

From Quiz A-Z Famous Peace Treaties

Answer: Berlin

Other results: The newly independent Bulgaria lost Macedonia and Eastern Rumelia to Turkey, Russia obtained Bessarabia, Britain gained Cyprus.

From Quiz The Treaty of Versailles

Answer: Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando

The Big Four were the leaders of the principal Allied nations - American President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando. These men were responsible for creating the Treaty of Versailles. (Originally, Russia had also been one of the leading Entente Powers, but had been defeated by Germany).

From Quiz Name The Treaty

Answer: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

This was signed on March 3, 1918, and was very hard on Russia, requiring it to give up a lot of land. Russia was forced to withdraw early from the war because of the Russian Revolution.

From Quiz Treaties Which Have Changed the World

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Trick or Treaty

Answer: Germany and the Soviet Union

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 - Adolf Hitler was to acquire western Poland, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin the eastern part. On 1 September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and the Soviet Union followed on the 17th. The pact ended when Hitler invaded Russia on 22 June 1941.

From Quiz Treaties and Pacts - I

Answer: 1795

It was signed between Prussia and France. The Treaty of Basel (or Basle) marked the first major defection from the First Coalition against France. Seeing little advantage to continuing the struggle against France and more concerned with integrating the new Polish provinces than with eliminating the revolutionary threat, Prussia came to a mutually beneficial agreement with France. Prussia recognized France's possession of the left bank of the Rhine. In exchange, France agreed to a neutrality zone encompassing Northern Germany. The peace treaty made between the two powers would last for 11 years.

From Quiz Treaties, Peaces, and Agreements

Answer: 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.

From Quiz A-Z Famous Peace Treaties

Answer: Copenhagen

Denmark lost Skåne (Scania), Halland and Blekinge to Sweden.

From Quiz Name The Treaty

Answer: Treaty of Fontainebleau

This was signed on April 13, 1814, and sent Napoleon into exile. He was given 2,000,000 francs (about $400,000 U.S. dollars) per year, but the treaty stayed in effect for barely a year, because in March 1815 Napoleon escaped and lost the Battle of Waterloo.

From Quiz Treaties Which Have Changed the World

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Treaties Through History

Answer: Russo-Japanese War

The Treaty was mediated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, and he won the Noble Peace Prize for it.

From Quiz Treaties, Peaces, and Agreements

Answer: 1957

The 1992 Maastricht Treaty turned the EC into the EU we have today.

From Quiz Don't Stop Agreeing

Answer: Treaty of Utrecht

The Treaty of Utrecht was signed by Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch Republic, and Savoy. Like most treaties in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, the treaty involved many territory changes. Most notably, the French gave back the Hudson Bay drainage basin in present-day Canada to Britain. Spain also sustained losses in Europe, most notably that of Gibraltar to the British. The treaties also recognized Queen Anne as sovereign of Great Britain.

From Quiz A-Z Famous Peace Treaties

Answer: Dresden

A Franco-Prussian alliance beat Austria in the two Silesian Wars.

From Quiz The Treaty of Versailles

Answer: Articles 231-247 and Annexes

Articles 31-117 dealt with political clauses for Europe, 400-427 handled procedure, and 1-30 was the Covenant of the League of Nations. The section on reparations begins with the notorious 'war guilt clause' (231), in which Germany was forced to accept sole responsibility for starting the war.

From Quiz Name The Treaty

Answer: Treaty of Paris

This was signed September 3, 1783, and recognized the U.S. as a sovereign nation.

From Quiz Treaties Which Have Changed the World

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Trick or Treaty

Answer: Spain and Portugal

The Treaty of Tordesillas set the line of demarcation halfway between the Portuguese claimed Cape Verde Islands of the coast of Africa and the recently "discovered" island of Hispaniola which Christopher Columbus claimed for Spain. Neither nation knew the full extent of their lands as the area had not been fully explored as yet by Europeans. Other European nations ignored the treaty as they were not recipients of any lands under the agreement and refused to concede much of the New World to Spain and Portugal.

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