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AP European History Treaties
Important Peace Treaties throughout the course of modern European History and their effects.
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04/13/2009

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Peace of Augsburg 1555
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Established Catholic and Lutheran religions in Germany according to the ruler of the region. Recognized Protestantism in Germany officially for the first time, but also served to make Germany more fragmented.
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Peace of Westphalia 1648
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Ended Thirty Years War. Continued the terms of the Treaty of Augsburg, but also added Calvinism. Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, 300 German States remained.
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Treaty of Karlowitz 1699
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Treaty between Austrians and Ottomans, helped to end Turkish invasions of Eastern Europe.
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Treaty of Urecht 1713
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Ended War of Spanish Succession. Spain's dominion is broken up. England gets the best deal.
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Treaty of Paris 1763
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Ended Seven Years War. England got a huge chunk of the US from France, and they got the rest of Canada. Prussia emerges a strong German State.
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Treaty of Paris 1783
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Ended Revolutionary War. England lost the US to the colonists, and a bit of it to Spain. France got to keep fishing rights off Newfoundland.
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Congress of Vienna 1815
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Ended Napoleonic Wars, England keeps possessions and gains some in India. Holland and Belgium unite into Netherlands to form barrier against France. Prussia takes left side of Rhine river to stop France aggression, Bourbons back on thrones in France and Spain, German nationalism underestimated, a new Poland is created under Alexander of Russia.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1917
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Russia leaves WWI, Lenin "Peace Land and Bread" promise, ends war to consolidate Bolshevik power, Russia
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Treaty of Versailles 1919
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Wilson's fourteen points seen as idealistic. Germany loses colonies in Africa and Indonesia, Germany forced to accept responsibility and pay massive reparations, new states formed in eastern Europe.
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Potsdam Conferance 1945
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Held at the end of WWII, Germany divided, disarmed, denazificated. Essentially started the Cold War.
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Treaties of Rome 1957
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Established European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community (ECC and Euratom). The ECC would lead the way for the European Union in 1992.
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