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List of Treaties (1916 - 1939)

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1916

• Sykes-Picot Agreement - France and the United Kingdom define spheres of influence in the Middle East.
• Treaty of Bucharest (1916) - Alliance between Romania and the Entente.

1917

• Lansing–Ishii Agreement - Trade treaty between the United States and Japan.
• Corfu Declaration - Statement of intention to form a Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

1918

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers) - Between Ukrainian People's Republic & Central Powers.
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Between Russia & Central Powers; Russia pulls out of World War I.
• Treaty of Bucharest (1918) - Between Romania and the Central Powers; never ratified.
• Treaty of Batum - Between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Ottoman Empire.
• Armistice of Mudros - Ends the Middle-Eastern part of World War I
• Armistice with Germany - Between France, Britain, and Germany, ending World War I

1919

• Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) - Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• Treaty of Versailles - Formally ends World War I.
• Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine - Between Allied Powers and Bulgaria.
• Faisal–Weizmann Agreement - Agreement for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the Middle East.
• Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 (Treaty of Rawalpindi) - Between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan during the Third Anglo-Afghan War; United Kingdom recognizes Afghanistan's independence; amended in 1921.

1920

• Seventh Treaty of Paris (1920) - Union of Bessarabia and Romania.
• Treaty of Brno (1920) - Naturalizes all populaces within the respective language groups of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
• Treaty of Rapallo (1920) - Between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (subsequently the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
• Treaty of Moscow (1920) - Mutual recognition of the Russian SFSR and the Democratic Republic of Georgia
• Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish) - Establishes border between Russia and Finland.
• Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Estonian) - Establishes border between Russia and Estonia.
• Treaty of Trianon - Regulates the newly independent Hungary.
• Treaty of Sèvres - Peace between the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire.
• Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty - Brings peace between the Republic of Latvia and Russian SFSR.
• Treaty of Alexandropol - Ends the war between Turkish nationalists and the Armenian Republic.
• Svalbard Treaty - The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard becomes part of the Kingdom of Norway.

1921

• Franco-Polish alliance (1921) - Military alliance between Poland and France that was active between 1921 and 1940.
• Anglo-Irish Treaty - Ends the Irish War of Independence and created the Irish Free State.
• Peace of Riga - Ends the Polish–Soviet War.
• Thomson–Urrutia Treaty - Colombia recognizes Panama's independence in return for 25 million dollars.
• Treaty of Berlin(1921) - Separate post-World War I peace agreement between the United States and Germany.
• Treaty of Kars - Friendship treaty between Turkey and the Soviet governments of the Transcaucasian Republics.
• Treaty of Ankara (1921) - France agrees to evacuate Cilicia in return for economic concessions from Turkey; Turkey acknowledges French imperial sovereignty over Syria.
• Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship (1921) - Grants both Iran and the Soviet Union full and equal shipping rights in the Caspian Sea.
• Treaty of Moscow (1921) - A friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) and the Bolshevik government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• Anglo–Afghan Treaty of 1921 - Amendments to and expansion of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 - between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan.
• Treaty 11 - Conducted at Northwest Territories, Canada, negotiating an agreement between the Canadian monarch, King George V, and First Nations. There were further signings in 1921.

1922

• Washington Naval Treaty - Attempts to limit naval expansion.
• Treaty of Rapallo (1922) - Between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia.
• Treaty on the Creation of the USSR - Legalized the creation of a union of several Republics of the Soviet Union in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1923

• Treaty of Lausanne - Sets the boundaries of modern Turkey.
• Halibut Treaty - Canadian-American agreement concerning fishing rights in the northern Pacific Ocean.
• Convention and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports - Mandated equal treatment of all ships in maritime ports, regardless of nationality.

1924

• Brussels Agreement (1924) - Multilateral treaty providing for medical treatment of seamen with venereal diseases.
• Treaty of Rome (1924) - Revokes parts of the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) that created the independent Free State of Fiume; Fiume would be annexed to Italy while the town of Sušak would be assigned to Yugoslavia.

1925

• Locarno Treaties - Seven treaties between the World War I Western European Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern Europe.

1926

• Treaty of Berlin (1926)
• Germany and the Soviet Union pledge neutrality.

1927

• Treaty of Jeddah (1927) - Establishes the independence of present-day Saudi Arabia from the United Kingdom.

1928

• Kellogg–Briand Pact - Calls "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy".
• Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 - 20 year treaty of peace between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia.

1929

• Lateran Treaty - The Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican City formally recognize each other.
• Geneva Convention (1929) - Establishes rules for the treatment of prisoners of war; predecessor of the 1949 Third Geneva Convention.
• International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency - Criminalises the counterfeiting of currency.

1930

• London Naval Treaty - Regulates submarine warfare and shipbuilding.
• Convention Between the United States and Great Britain (1930) - Definitely delimits the boundary between North Borneo (then a British protectorate) and the Philippine archipelago (then a U.S. Territory).

1931

• Treaty of Westminster (1931) - Creates the British Commonwealth.

1932

• Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact - International treaty of non-aggression signed by representatives of Poland and the USSR.

1934

• German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact - International treaty between Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic; both countries pledged to settle disputes through bilateral negotiations.
• Balkan Pact - Between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia; signatories agree to suspend all disputed territorial claims against each other.

1935

• Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance - Bilateral pact between France and the USSR with the aim of containing German aggression.
• Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation - Reinforces the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship.

1936

• Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 - The United Kingdom withdraws its troops from Egypt except those necessary to protect the Suez Canal and its surroundings.
• Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936) - France provides independence to Syria.
• Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits - Approve Turkish control on Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits

1937

• International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling - Establishes limitations on whaling practices; protocols signed in 1938 and again in 1945.
• Treaty of Saadabad - A non-aggression pact signed by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

1938

• Munich Agreement - Surrenders the Sudetenland to Germany.

1939

• Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Soviet-German non-aggression pact.
• Pact of Steel - Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy.

1940

• Moscow Peace Treaty - Ends the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in a stalemate..

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Historical Timeline

• The Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920
• Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
• Reparations  
• The League of Nations
• Science and Mathematics
• Intellectual Trends
• Economic Hostilities, 1921-1930’s
• Search for Security, 1919-1930
• Rise of Fascism and Creation of the Axis Powers, 1930-1938
• Hitler as a Cause of World War Two 
• The Nazi Soviet Pact
• Policy of Appeasement and Buildup to War