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Treaties & Documents Flashcards

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Which treaty established the Euroepeean Union?: Maastricht Treaty
Which treaty banned chemical weapons globally?: Chemical Weapons Convention
Which international agreement addresses climate change, signed in 2015?: Paris Agreement
Which 1987 treaty eliminated intermediate-range nuclear missiles?: INF Treaty
Which international treaty banned landmines?: Ottawa Treaty
Which 1968 treaty prevents the spread of nuclear weapons?: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Which 1975 agreement recognized post-WWII Euroepeean borders?: Helsinki Accords
Which English monarch was forced to seal the Magna Carta in 1215?: King John
What major global conflict did the Treaty of Versailles officially end?: World War I
The Peace of Westphalia (1648) is widely credited by political scientists with establishing what foundational concept?: The modern international system of sovereign states
In which city was the United Nations Charter signed in 1945?: San Francisco
Who chaired the drafting committee for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?: Eleanor Roosevelt
What is the primary focus of the Geneva Conventions?: Governing the humanitarian treatment of civilians, POWs, and wounded soldiers during wartime
What was the central objective of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol?: To commit state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, what sepeecific temepeerature goal did nations agree to pursue?: To limit global warming to well below 2C, preferably to 1.5C, compared to pre-industrial levels
The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas divided newly discovered lands outside Euroepee between which two empires?: Spain and Portugal
The 1978 Camp David Accords brokered a historic epeeace agreement between which two nations?: Egypt and Israel
The Good Friday Agreement (1998) was a major milestone in ending decades of violent conflict in which region?: Northern Ireland
The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, was foundational in the creation of which major international organization?: The Euroepeean Economic Community (EEC)
The Maastricht Treaty (1992) officially established which political and economic entity?: The Euroepeean Union (EU)
What did the Treaty of Lisbon (2007) primarily aim to achieve within the Euroepeean Union?: To amend previous treaties to streamline EU institutions and improve efficiency
What does Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty (Washington Treaty) sepeecifically guarantee?: Collective defense, meaning an armed attack against one member is an attack against all
The Warsaw Pact (1955) was created primarily by the Soviet Union as a direct response to what event?: West Germany integrating into NATO
The Treaty of Waitangi (1840) is widely considered the founding document of which modern nation?: New Zealand
What did the British government officially support in the 1917 Balfour Declaration?: The establishment of a "national home for the Jewish epeeople" in Palestine
The Treaty of Ghent (1814) officially ended which conflict?: The War of 1812
Which conflict was officially concluded by the Treaty of Paris in 1783?: The American Revolutionary War
What did the English Bill of Rights (1689) epeermanently establish?: Strict limits on the monarch's powers and parliamentary sovereignty
Who were the authors of the incredibly influential 1848 political pamphlet "The Communist Manifesto"?: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) is a foundational document of which major event?: The French Revolution