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Treaties since CW
Treaties and Diplomacy since the Civil War
Question | Answer |
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Ended the Spanish American War; the US got the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam; Cuba got independence | Treaty of Paris (1899) |
Meeting at which unconditional surrender is demanded of Japan; a formal peace settlement with Germany is agreed on; Berlin is divided into four sectors | Potsdam |
Churchill and FDR meet and FDR announces that Germany's surrender must be unconditional | Casablanca Conference |
Ended WWI; founded the League of Nations; said Germany was at fault for the war and had to pay reparations; took Germany's colonial possessions | Treaty of Versailles |
Banned war | Kellogg Briand Pact |
Mutual defense pact with several Pacific countries | SEATO |
First meeting at which Churchill and FDR met and put forth their common goals for the war | Atlantic Charter |
Meeting at which the Big Three agreed on an invasion of France in the Spring of 1944 | Teheran Conference |
Set limits on the size of nation's navies | Washington Disarmanent meetings |
Site of conference that chartered the UN | San Francisco Conference |
Meeting at which allies arrange the occupation of Germany and to oversee free elections in all liberated nations; the Soviets agreed to enter the war against Japan; criticism that FDR gave away too much to Stalin | Yalta Conference |
Granted the US the right to lease the land it needs to build the Panama Canal | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
Meeting that created the International Monetary Fund | Bretton Woods Conference |
Mutual defense pact with 14 other countries against the spread of Soviet communism | NATO |
The British renounced their rights to the Panama Canal | Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |
1850 agreement in which the US and Great Britain agreed not to seek rights to a Panama canal | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty |
Meeting in 1944 at which plans were outlined for an international organization that eventually became the United Nations | Dumbarton Oaks Conference |