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Treaties
YGK These Treates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The treaty that officially ended World War I between the Allies and Germany | The Treaty of Versailles |
| The year the Treaty of Versailles was signed | 1919 |
| The location where the Treaty of Versailles was signed | Versailles French palace |
| The "Big Four" who headed the Allies’ delegations at the Paris Peace Conference | Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando |
| The U.S. President whose Fourteen Points were discussed at Versailles | Woodrow Wilson |
| The controversial clauses noted in the Treaty of Versailles | Disarmament, war guilt, and reparations clauses |
| The series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht that mostly ended the War of the Spanish Succession | The Treaty of Utrecht |
| The year the Treaty of Utrecht was signed | 1713 |
| The sides that signed the Treaty of Utrecht | France and Spain (one side); Britain, Savoy, and the United Provinces (the other) |
| The treaty that confirmed a Bourbon prince (Philip, Duke of Anjou) on the Spanish throne, ending Habsburg control | The Treaty of Utrecht |
| The Spanish possessions given to the victors in the Treaty of Utrecht | Sicily, the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, and Gibraltar |
| The treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain | The Treaty of Ghent |
| The year the Treaty of Ghent was signed | 1814 |
| The Belgian city where the Treaty of Ghent was signed | Ghent |
| The battle that occurred two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent was signed due to distances involved | Battle of New Orleans |
| The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) | The Treaty of Portsmouth |
| The year the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed | 1905 |
| The U.S. President who brokered the negotiations for the Treaty of Portsmouth and won the Nobel Peace Prize | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The benefits Japan received from the Treaty of Portsmouth | An indemnity, the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria, and half of Sakhalin Island |
| The treaty that settled a boundary dispute between the U.S. and Spain following the Louisiana Purchase | The Adams-Onís Treaty |
| The year the Adams-Onís Treaty was signed | 1819 |
| The U.S. Secretary of State who negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty | John Quincy Adams |
| The territory sold to the U.S. in the Adams-Onís Treaty in exchange for payment of citizens’ claims against Spain | Florida |
| The alternate name for the Adams-Onís Treaty because it delineated the U.S.-Spain border to the Pacific Ocean | The Transcontinental Treaty |
| The accords negotiated at the presidential retreat Camp David by Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin | The Camp David Accords |
| The year the Camp David Accords were signed | 1978 |
| The U.S. President who brokered the Camp David Accords | Jimmy Carter |
| The area returned to Egypt as a result of the peace treaty the year after the Accords | The Sinai Peninsula |
| The results of the Camp David Accords that isolated Egypt from other Arab countries and led to Sadat's assassination in 1981 | Return of the Sinai Peninsula, guaranteed Israeli access to the Red Sea/Suez Canal, normalized diplomatic/economic relations |
| The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and transferred California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of four other states to the U.S. | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| The year the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed | 1848 |
| The neighborhood of Mexico City where the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed | Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| The term for the territory transferred to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexican Cession |
| The river made the boundary between Texas and Mexico by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Rio Grande |
| The “separate peace” signed by the Bolshevik government of the new USSR and Germany during WWI | The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| The year the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed | 1918 |
| The chief Soviet negotiator who rejected an earlier, better German offer for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Leon Trotsky |
| The territories the USSR gave up after Germany invaded during negotiations | Ukraine, Belarus, and the three Baltic countries |
| The treaty that nullified the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk following Germany’s defeat | The Treaty of Versailles |
| The treaty that ostensibly divided the New World (and the entire world) between Spain and Portugal | The Treaty of Tordesillas |
| The year the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed | 1494 |
| The Spanish-born Pope whose bull granted lands to Spain and established the line of demarcation | Pope Alexander VI |
| The location of the line established by the Treaty of Tordesillas | West of the Cape Verde islands |
| The region where the line created by the Treaty of Tordesillas passed, allowing the Portuguese to establish a colony there | Brazil |
| The collective name for two treaties ending the Thirty Years’ War | The Peace of Westphalia |
| The year the Peace of Westphalia was signed | 1648 |
| The principle confirmed by the Peace of Westphalia (a ruler’s religion determined that of his country) | “Cuius regio eius religio” |
| The territories transferred to France by the Peace of Westphalia | Most of Lorraine and some of Alsace |
| The treaty that created the independent country of the Vatican City | The Lateran Treaty |
| The year the Lateran Treaty was signed | 1929 |
| The state religion of Italy established by the Lateran Treaty (ended in 1984) | Catholicism |
| The people who signed the Lateran Treaty in the namesake papal residence | Benito Mussolini and a representative of Pope Pius XI |
| The issue resolved by the Lateran Treaty that arose from the unification of Italy and dissolution of the Papal States | The “Roman Question” |
| The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and transferred Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the U.S. | The Treaty of Paris of 1898 |
| The year the Treaty of Paris was signed (ending the Spanish-American War) | 1898 |
| The territories transferred to the U.S. by the Treaty of Paris of 1898 | Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico |
| The country made (ostensibly) independent by the Treaty of Paris of 1898 | Cuba |