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Treaties of the Soviet Union
- Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual AssistanceFrance's 1935 pact with the Soviets, meant to stop Hitler, gave him an excuse to enter the Rhineland.
- Anglo-Soviet AgreementBritain and the Soviet Union signed a two-clause alliance in Moscow on the 12th of July 1941.
- Covenant of the League of NationsEleven of nineteen delegates backed an equality motion for the League Covenant, but Wilson overruled it.
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsThe United States signed a human rights treaty in 1979 and never ratified it. It covers work, health and education.
- Moscow Peace TreatyFinland's president signed the Moscow Peace Treaty in 1940 wishing his own hand would wither.
- Montreal ProtocolThe Montreal Protocol is the only UN treaty ratified by all 198 parties. It phased out spray-can chemicals.
- Moscow ArmisticeFinland leased the Porkkala peninsula to the Soviet Union for fifty years but got it back in 1956.
- Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression PactChina called reports of Soviet troops on its soil "Japanese propaganda." It needed Soviet supplies.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsA UN human rights treaty adopted in 1966 took nearly ten years to take effect.
- Convention on Certain Conventional WeaponsThe 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons has no way to check whether states obey it.
- Soviet–Japanese Neutrality PactStalin personally saw off Japan's foreign minister at a train station.
- Belovezha AccordsSix men signed the Belovezha Accords in a forest hunting retreat, and the Soviet Union ended.
- Outer Space TreatyNo country can claim the Moon, Mars or any asteroid under the Outer Space Treaty. Rivals signed it in 1967.
- Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was a communiqué, not a peace treaty, yet it shaped Germany until 1990.
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyThe Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany was signed in Moscow on the 12th of September 1990. Most people know it by a shorter name, the Two Plus Four Agreement. The two were West Germany and East Germany. The four were…
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsNorth Korea became the first state ever to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty, in April 2003. It had joined in 1985.
- Molotov–Ribbentrop PactHitler decided Stalin looked like a man he could do business with. Their 1939 pact split Eastern Europe in secret.
- Antarctic Treaty SystemTwelve rival nations signed the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, the first arms control deal of the Cold War.
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyIn 1957, underground nuclear tests could not be told apart from earthquakes. That complicated a full test ban.