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Treaty of Paris (1763) |
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ended the French and Indian War between England and France |
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Treaty of Paris (1783) |
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ended the American Revolution with England |
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Jay's Treaty (1794) |
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Britian agreed to leave the forts they occupied on the U.S. frontier |
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Pinckney's Treaty (1795) |
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Spain allowed Americans to travel freely along the Mississippi River and settled boundary disputes with the U.S. and Spain |
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Treaty of Greenville (1795) |
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ended the Battle of Fallen Timbers;12 Indian tribes agreed to give up their land of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. |
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Louisiana Purchase (1803) |
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America acquired Louisiana territory from France; doubled the size of the U.S. |
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Treaty of Ghent (1814) |
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ended the War of 1812 with England |
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Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) |
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Spain gave Florida to the United States |
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Oregon Treaty (1846) |
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divided Oregon Country between the United States and Canada |
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Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo (1848) |
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ended the war with Mexico; U.S. acquired the Mexican Cession |
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Treaty of Paris (1898) |
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ended Spanish-American War; Cuban independence;U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philipines |
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Platt Amendment (1902) |
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made Cuba a U.S. protectorate |
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Hay-Bunau-Varilla (1903) |
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Panama became independent; U.S. acquired control over canal zone, and can intervene in Panama |
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Treaty of Verailles (1918) |
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ended WWI; German reparations and war-guilt clause; Leage of Nations created, but the U.S. does not sign on. |
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Potsdam Treaty (1945) |
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ended WWII in Europe; carved up and disarmed Germany; eliminated Nazis; punished war criminals |
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GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (1948-1995) |
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lowered barriers to international trade; 1994, created World Trade Organization |
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (1949) |
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mutual defense pact among U.S., Canada, and ten Western European allies |
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Korean War settlement (1953) |
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stalemate--Korea remained split with a demilitarized zone between the North and South |
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Geneva Accords (1954) |
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temporarily divided Vietnam into communist North and anticommunist South |
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) |
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barred atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons |
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SALT I (1972) and SALT II (1979) (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) |
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halted growth of numbers of two types of nuclear missiles; limited number of strategic weapons and nuclear-missile launcher |
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Vietnam War agreement (1973) |
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ended American involvement; country remained divided with North Vietnamese troops in the South |
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Camp David Accords (1978) |
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President Carter helped negotiate Middle East peace agreements between Jordan and Egypt and Israel |
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INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty (1987) |
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eliminated two classes of weapons;allowed inspection of military installations |
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START I (1991) and START II (1993) |
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continued nuclear arem reduction up to 75 percent |
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NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) (1993) |
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U.S., Canada, and Mexico drop all trade barriers |
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Kyoto Accords (1997) |
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internation climate treaty; 2001, U.S. doesn't sign |
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