Learn Historic Treaties
Learn about history's most famous and impactful treaties in this course!
188 free flashcards · by Ben Jenkins · History & Geography / History
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What you'll learn in Historic Treaties
- Ended WWI; blamed for causing WWII due to its harsh treatment of Germany — Treaty of Versailles
- U.S. acquired vast territory west of the Mississppi from France — Louisiana Purchase
- Ended War of 1812; news arrived in America too late to prevent battles — Treaty of Ghent
- Begin (Israel), Sadat (Egypt) sign treaty brokered by Jimmy Carter — Camp David Accords
- Russo-Japanese War ended with this treaty arranged by Teddy Roosevelt — Treaty of Portsmouth
- Nicholas Trist negotiated this treaty that ceded California to the U.S. — Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Ended Thirty Years' War; established modern European state system — Peace of Westphalia
- Continental free trade pact joining U.S., Canada, and Mexico — NAFTA
- Appeasement of Hitler allowed him to seize part of Czechoslovakia — Munich Pact
- Ended Spanish Succession war, granted Britain trade privileges — Treaty of Utrecht
- Eastern Bloc alliance that responded to West Germany's entry into NATO — Warsaw Pact
- Status of the Vatican defined by these treaties signed by Mussolini — Lateran Treaties
- Set line of demarcation between Spanish, Portuguese empires — Treaty of Tordesillas
- Treaty between Germans, Soviets ended Russian participation in WWI — Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Treaty that granted Florida to the U.S., defined southwestern borders — Adams-Onis Treaty
- Power-sharing agreement to end Northern Ireland's Troubles — Good Friday Agreement
- Settled U.S.-Canadian boundary disputes in ME, NY, MN — Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- Federalist-supported commercial treaty between U.S. and Britain — Jay's Treaty
- Ended War of Austrian Succession, confirmed Prussian rule of Silesia — 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
- Ended Spanish-American War, ceded Puerto Rico and Philippines to U.S. — Treaty of Paris of 1898
- Non-aggression pact between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union — Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- First Opium War ended with this "unequal treaty" that ceded Hong Kong — Treaty of Nanking
- Treaty betvveen the U.S. and Cherokees that led to Trail of Tears — Treaty of New Echota
- This agreement with the FLN ended France's colonial war in Algeria — Evian Accords
- U.S. has not ratified this attempt to control global warming — Kyoto Protocol
- Two translations meant disputed terms for this British-Maori treaty — Treaty of Waitangi
- Treaty on European union resulted in a common European currency — Maastricht Treaty
- This U.S.-Panama treaty established the Panama Canal Zone — Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
- Arafat, Rabin, Clinton attempt to advance Israel-Palestine peace process — Oslo Accords
- Britain recognized independence of the new United States — Treaty of Paris of 1783
- Commodore Perry's treaty that opened Japan to American trade — Convention of Kanagawa
- Alliance between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I signed on a raft — Treaties of Tilsit
- Division of Carolingian empire among Charlemagne's 3 grandsons — Treaty of Verdun
- Phased out chlorofluorocarbons to repair ozone hole — Montreal Protocol
- Taiwan became a Japanese colony with the end of the Sino-Japanese War — Treaty of Shimonoseki
- Ended the Russo-Turkish War and created an independent Bulgaria — Treaty of San Stefano
- Allowed German princes to choose Catholicism or Protestantism — Peace of Augsburg
- Renounced war "as an instrument of national policy" — Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Provided terms for the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama — Carter-Torrijos Treaty
- Brief truce between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War — Peace of Nicias
- Post-WWI agreement between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire — Treaty of Sévres
- Cardinal Mazarin's territorial settlement between France and Spain — Peace of the Pyrenees
- Russia gained Baltic lands by this treaty ending the Great Northern War — Treaty of Nystad
- Many Seminoles rejected this treaty that would have moved them west — Treaty of Payne's Landing
- Churchill and FDR agreed to this statement of post-WWII policy goals — Atlantic Charter
- Transferred Austrian territory in the Netherlands to revolutionary France — Treaty of Campo Formio
- Replaced Treaty of Sevres; recognized Ataturk's new Republic of Turkey — Treaty of Lausanne
- The Black Sea was made neutral by this treaty ending the Crimean War — Treaty of Paris of 1856
- This agreement on borders and dissidents thawed U.S.-Soviet relations — Helsinki Accords
- Allowed Henry V to take the French throne after the Battle of Agincourt — Treaty of Troyes
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