Curated category
Treaties involving territorial changes
- Moscow Peace TreatyThe Winter War began on the 30th of November 1939 with the Soviet invasion of Finland. This conflict started when Moscow decided to push its borders westward…
- Treaty of Campo FormioA small house in the main square of Campo Formio held the weight of European history on the 17th of October 1797. Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von…
- Moscow ArmisticeFinnish and Soviet officers gathered in Moscow on the 5th of September 1944 to begin talks that would reshape a nation. The meeting took place under tense…
- Constitution of the German EmpireOn the 10th of June 1866, four days before the Austro-Prussian War began, Otto von Bismarck presented a ten-article outline to German states.
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935Italy entered World War I expecting to gain territory from the defeated German colonial empire. The Treaty of Versailles denied Italy these lands, dividing…
- Second Vienna AwardThe 1920 Treaty of Trianon carved the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary into several new nation states. This decision left millions of ethnic Hungarians outside…
- Treaty of CraiovaThe Second Vienna Award, signed on the 30th of August 1940, assigned Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary. This decision came under diplomatic…
- Congress of ViennaIn May 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the Sixth Coalition, ending twenty-three years of nearly continuous warfare across the continent.
- Louisiana PurchaseIn 1762, the Treaty of Fontainebleau transferred the vast Louisiana territory from France to Spain. This secret agreement followed French defeat in the Seven…