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  2. Treaty of Versailles - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war.

  3. List of treaties - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known surviving peace treaty in the world, the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty preserved at the Temple of Amun in Karnak. This list of treaties contains known agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups.

  4. Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Peace Treaties ( French: Traités de Paris) were signed on 10 February 1947 following the end of World War II in 1945. The Paris Peace Conference lasted from 29 July until 15 October 1946. The victorious wartime Allied powers (principally the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, and France) negotiated the details of peace ...

  5. List of United Nations peacekeeping missions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation. Peacekeeping, as defined by the United Nations, is a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable ...

  6. Peace treaty - Wikipedia

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    World War I. A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties. [1] It is different from an armistice, which is an agreement to stop hostilities; a surrender, in which an army agrees to give up arms; or a ceasefire or truce, in which the ...

  7. History of United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Lester B. Pearson a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The League of Nations-controlled International Force in the Saar (1934–35) may be "the first true example of an international peace observation force". Before any official peacekeeping mission, the UN played an important role in the conflict concerning Trieste after World War II. From 1947 to ...

  8. Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty, also known as the Eternal Treaty or the Silver Treaty, is the only Ancient Near Eastern treaty for which the versions of both sides have survived. It is also the earliest known surviving peace treaty. It is sometimes called the Treaty of Kadesh, after the well-documented Battle of Kadesh that had been fought ...

  9. June 2024 Ukraine peace summit - Wikipedia

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    An international peace summit in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War is planned to be held in Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland on 15–16 June 2024. The conference follows a series of four earlier international meetings, [3] and is to be hosted by the Swiss president Viola Amherd .