important peace treaties from european history

8/2/2019 Important Peace Treaties From European History

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Important Peace

Treaties from European

History.


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The Peace ofAugsburg 1555.


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This peace established that the rulers

religion sets the religion for that area. It also made clear that any ruler who converted

to Lutheranism was not allowed to then make

his region Lutheran.

This was a great victory for Protestants! It

was official recognition of the newly arrivedLutheran church

But, it would make German more

fragmented.


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What was the Peace Treaty thatended the Thirty Years War?


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Treaty of Westphalia,1648.


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Continued terms of Augsburg (1555) but with

Calvinism added to Lutheranism as officially

accepted religions.

The extensiveHoly Roman Empire was dissolved

the Dutch and Swiss were now separate, Lorraine

went to France, territory went to Sweden. The

mouth of the Rhine was now controlled by Dutch.

The Treaty maintained independence and

Sovereignty of 300 separate German States.

Germany wasfragmentedand wreckedby the war.

This was the last great warover religious issues.


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What was the Peace treaty

between the Austrian Empire

and Ottoman Empire?


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Treaty of Karlowitz, 1699


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This treaty helps to end the Turkish

invasions of Eastern Europe

Last great incursion was during the

Siege of Vienna 1683. Vienna is

rescued by Eugene of Savoy and JanSobeiski of Poland.


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Name the Treaty that ended

the War of Spanish

Succession--


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Treaty of Utrecht, 1713


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The Victors arethose who allied

against Louis XIVs armies.

Spains dominions are broken up and dispersed:

Gibraltar and Minorca (island) goes to British.

Sardinia goes from Spain to Italy (Piedmont) The Spanish Netherlands (todays Belgium) goes to

the Austrian Netherlands.

Spain does retain South America. In Canada, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia go to

Britain.

British greatest winners at the treaty.


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How about the Treaty that

ended the Seven Years

War?


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Treaty of Paris 1763.


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French give to British all territory

East of the MississippiCanada is

now controlled entirely by British

Prussia gets to keep Silesia

Prussia emerges as a strong

German State.


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And what about the Treaty

that ended the AmericanRevolutionary War?


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Treaty of Paris,

1783


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Britain also signed separate agreements with France,Spain, and the Netherlands which had been negotiated

earlier.

The colonies ofEast and West Florida were ceded toSpain, and Spain also reclaimed the island ofMinorca,

while the Bahamas Islands and St. Kitts were returned

to Britain.The treaty with France largely reinforced earlier

treaties, guaranteeing fishing rights offNewfoundland.
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And can you name the six

month Peace talks that endedthe Napoleonic Wars?


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Congress of Vienna, 1815


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British retain possessions and make significant

gains in India.

Holland and Belgium united into Netherlandsto form barrier against France

Prussia takes left side of Rhine river to stop

France aggression.

Bourbons restored to thrones of France and

Spain.

German nationalism was ignored.

New Poland is created under Alexander of

Russia.


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This Treaty got Russia outof World War I.


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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, December 3, 1917.

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Lenin promises Peace, Land and Bread and

wants to end the War to consolidate Bolshevik

power. Russia gives up Poland, Ukraine, Finland and

the Baltic Provinces.

Lenin believes that Germany will eventuallybe defeated and they will get some of the land

back.

With this peace agreement, Germany sends its

soldiers to the Western Front to continue

fighting against the Americans who arrived in

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Famous Treaty held after World

War I


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Treaty of Versailles,1919

Wilsons fourteen points seen as idealistic


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Wilson s fourteen points seen as idealistic

Alsace Lorraine returned to France.

Germany cannot have troops in Rhineland

Germany loses all its colonies in Africa andIndonesia.

War damages to be paid to France and Belgium.Germany forced to give up fleet, merchant marine

ships, make coal deliveries, and give up all propertyowned by German citizens abroad.

Germany must sign a war guilt clause acceptingresponsibility for the war.

New independent staes of Finland, Estonia, Latvia,Lithuania, Poland Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

A cordon sanitaireis created to buffer Europe fromthe newly communist Russia.


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Can you name the

Peace Talks at the endof World War II?


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Potsdam, July 1945

German di ided into ones of


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Germany divided into zones ofoccupation by British, French, Americans

and Russia Germany disarmed and de-militarized.

De-nazification process and war trials to

be held Reparations from Germany to all zones,

but additional reparations to be given toRussia from the three Western Zones.

Cold War begins.


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European integrationis at present based

on four founding treaties:

The Treaty of Paris, establishing the

European Coal and Steel Community, which

was signed on 18 April 1951, entered intoforce on 23 July1952 .
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The Treaty establishing theEuropean Atomic EnergyCommunity (Euratom)

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Also, the Treaty establishing theEuropean Economic Community

(EEC), which was signed - alongwith the Euratom Treaty - in Rome

on 25 March1957, and entered intoforce on 1 January1958.

These two Treaties are oftenreferred to as the "Treaties of

Rome. The Treaty on European
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The Treaty on European

Union, signed in Maastricht

on 7 February1992, enteredinto force on 1 November1993. It changed the name of

the European EconomicCommunity to simply "theEuropean Community

This is the Treaty that set thegoal of a common currency.
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