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World War II treaties
- Anglo-Soviet AgreementOn the 12th of July 1941, two men sat down in Moscow to sign a document that would reshape the war in Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Ambassador to…
- Moscow Peace TreatyThe Moscow Peace Treaty was signed on the evening of the 12th of March 1940, bringing to a close a war that had lasted 105 days and reshaping Finland's…
- Franco-Polish allianceThe Franco-Polish Alliance was born in Paris in February 1921, signed by a Polish count and a French foreign minister against the backdrop of a war that had…
- Pact of SteelThe Pact of Steel was signed on the 22nd of May 1939, binding Germany and Italy to go to war together. Foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo…
- 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…
- Soviet–Japanese Neutrality PactOn the 13th of April 1941, the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow. This agreement arrived two years after the…
- Armistice of 22 June 1940The Armistice of the 22nd of June 1940 was signed at 18:36 in a forest clearing near Compiègne, France, and it carved up one of Europe's oldest nations in a…
- Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was signed on the 1st of August 1945, at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, as the guns fell silent across Europe but war still raged in…
- Treaty of CraiovaThe Treaty of Craiova was signed on the 7th of September 1940, and within less than a week, it had been ratified and a border that had existed for nearly…
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
- Anti-Comintern PactOn the 25th of November 1936, in the offices of a semi-official diplomatic bureau that operated outside Germany's formal foreign ministry, two ambassadors…
- Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in Moscow on the 24th of August 1939, and within a week Germany had invaded Poland.
- Armistice of CassibileOn the 25th of July 1943, the Grand Council of Fascism met in Rome to vote on a motion that would topple Benito Mussolini.
- Tripartite PactOn the 27th of September 1940, three men stood in a Berlin room to sign a document that would reshape global alliances. Joachim von Ribbentrop signed for…
- Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied PowersOn the 10th of February 1947, representatives from Italy and the Allied Powers gathered in Paris to sign a new treaty. This document formally ended World War…
- Destroyers-for-bases dealBy late June 1940, France had surrendered to Germany and Italy. The British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone in warfare against Hitler and Mussolini.
- Treaty of San FranciscoOn the 8th of September 1951, inside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, representatives of 49 nations gathered to sign a document that would…