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  2. Treaty of Paris (1763) - Wikipedia

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    The peace was inadequate, because the places gained were no equivalent for the places surrendered." [25] The treaty passed by 319 votes to 65. [26] The Treaty of Paris took no consideration of Great Britain's battered continental ally, King Frederick II of Prussia, who negotiated peace terms separately in the Treaty of Hubertusburg. For decades ...

  3. Political status of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, the Treaty of Taipei was concluded between the ROC and Japan on 28 April 1952 (effective 5 August), where Japan essentially re-affirmed the terms of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and formalized the peace between the ROC and Japan. It also nullified all previous treaties made between China and Japan. Article 10 of the treaty ...

  4. Peace treaty - Wikipedia

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    The "Peace Memorial" about the Treaty of Nöteborg at the Orekhovy Island. The content of a treaty usually depends on the nature of the conflict being concluded. In the case of large conflicts between numerous parties, international treaty covering all issues or separate treaties signed between each party.

  5. Presidency of Woodrow Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Wilson became a prominent 1912 presidential contender immediately upon his election as Governor of New Jersey in 1910. Already famous as president of Princeton and as a leading intellectual, his political stature soared after he defeated the state's political bosses and emerged as a national leader of the Progressive movement to reform America. [3]

  6. Seminole Wars - Wikipedia

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    The treaty had given the Seminoles three years to move west of the Mississippi. The government interpreted the three years as starting 1832 and expected the Seminoles to move in 1835. Fort King was reopened in 1834. A new Seminole agent, Wiley Thompson, had been appointed in 1834, and the task of persuading the Seminoles to move fell to him.

  7. First Barbary War - Wikipedia

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    On September 5, 1795, American negotiator Joseph Donaldson signed a peace treaty with the Dey of Algiers, that included an upfront payment of $642,500 in specie (silver coinage, equivalent to $12 million in 2023) for peace, the release of American captives, various expenses for their care, and various gifts for the Dey's royal court and family ...

  8. Great Britain in the Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle succeeded his younger brother as Prime Minister in 1754 and managed domestic affairs for much of the Seven Years' War.. The last major conflict in Europe, the War of the Austrian Succession, had ended in 1748 with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle after a bloody war had left large parts of Central Europe devastated.

  9. Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia

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    Henry Alfred Kissinger [a] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.