Treaties

Question 1

officially ended World War I and was signed at its namesake French palace after the Paris Peace Conference.

Answer 1

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Question 2

was a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht that (mostly) ended the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).

Answer 2

Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

Question 3

ended the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.

Answer 3

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Question 4

ended the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).

Answer 4

Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)

Question 5

settled a boundary dispute between the U.S. and Spain that arose following the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 5

Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

Question 6

were negotiated at the presidential retreat of Camp David by Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel Menachem Begin; they were brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Answer 6

Camp David Accords (1978)

Question 7

ended the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and was signed in its namesake neighborhood of Mexico City.

Answer 7

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Question 8

was a “separate peace” signed by the Bolshevik government of the new USSR and Germany.

Answer 8

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)

Question 9

ostensibly divided the New World (and, in later interpretations, the entire world) between Spain and Portugal.

Answer 9

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Question 10

is the collective name for two treaties ending the Thirty Years’ War that were signed by the Holy Roman Empire, minor German states, Spain, France, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic.

Answer 10

Peace of Westphalia (1648)

Question 11

created the independent country of the Vatican City, made Catholicism the state religion of Italy (ended in 1984), and determined the proper remuneration for Church property taken by Italy.

Answer 11

Lateran Treaty (1929)

Question 12

It ended the Spanish-American War and transferred Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the U.S. while making Cuba (ostensibly) independent.

Answer 12

Treaty of Paris (1898)