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Treaties & Documents Quiz

Treaties & Documents · Medieval Quiz

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Treaties and historical documents have shaped nations, ended wars, established governments, protected rights, and influenced international relations for centuries. From peace agree...

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  1. The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression agreement that included a secret protocol to divide Poland between which two powers?

    • A. Germany and the UK
    • B. Germany and the USSR
    • C. Italy and Germany
    • D. USSR and Japan
  2. 'The Communist Manifesto,' a document that reshaped 20th-century global politics, was written by Karl Marx and whom?

    • A. Vladimir Lenin
    • B. Friedrich Engels
    • C. Leon Trotsky
    • D. Mikhail Bakunin
  3. Which act ended East India Company rule?

    • A. Charter Act
    • B. Government of India Act 1858
    • C. Regulating Act
    • D. Pitt?s Act
  4. The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi is considered the founding document of which modern nation?

    • A. Australia
    • B. Canada
    • C. New Zealand
    • D. South Africa
  5. The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, was an international treaty designed to address which global issue?

    • A. Ozone depletion
    • B. Nuclear proliferation
    • C. Climate change
    • D. Ocean pollution
  6. Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, resulting in the US acquisition of more than half of Mexico's territory?

    • A. Treaty of Ghent
    • B. Treaty of Paris
    • C. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    • D. Adams-Ons Treaty
  7. Which 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years' War and established the modern concept of national sovereignty?

    • A. Treaty of Utrecht
    • B. Peace of Westphalia
    • C. Treaty of Paris
    • D. Treaty of Ghent
  8. The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended which war, where the only major territorial change was Prussia's acquisition of Silesia?

    • A. The War of the Polish Succession
    • B. The War of the Austrian Succession
    • C. The Seven Years' War
    • D. The War of the Jenkins' Ear
  9. The 'Magna Carta' was signed by which King of England?

    • A. King John
    • B. King Richard I
    • C. King George III
    • D. King Henry VIII
  10. The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, which ended Japan's policy of isolation, was signed following the arrival of which US naval officer?

    • A. Admiral Chester Nimitz
    • B. Commodore Matthew Perry
    • C. Admiral David Farragut
    • D. Commodore George Dewey
  11. Which document, signed in San Francisco in 1945, established the framework for a new global organization to replace the League of Nations?

    • A. The Atlantic Charter
    • B. The UN Charter
    • C. The Treaty of Rome
    • D. The Warsaw Pact
  12. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which forms the basis of international space law, prohibits nations from doing what?

    • A. Launching satellites
    • B. Sending humans to the Moon
    • C. Placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit
    • D. Conducting scientific research on Mars
  13. The 'Good Friday Agreement' of 1998 was a major milestone in ending the conflict in which region?

    • A. The Balkans
    • B. Northern Ireland
    • C. South Africa
    • D. Chechnya
  14. 'The Federalist Papers' were a series of 85 essays written to persuade the citizens of which state to ratify the US Constitution?

    • A. Virginia
    • B. Massachusetts
    • C. New York
    • D. Pennsylvania
  15. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty is the foundational document that formally created which international entity?

    • A. The United Nations
    • B. The European Union
    • C. NATO
    • D. The African Union
  16. The Treaty of Nanjing (1842) ended the First Opium War and saw which territory ceded to Great Britain 'in perpetuity'?

    • A. Shanghai
    • B. Hong Kong
    • C. Macau
    • D. Taiwan
  17. The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) established the borders and recognized the sovereignty of which modern nation?

    • A. Iraq
    • B. Syria
    • C. Turkey
    • D. Greece
  18. The 1819 Adams-Ons Treaty, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, saw the United States acquire which territory from Spain?

    • A. Texas
    • B. Florida
    • C. Louisiana
    • D. California
  19. The 1802 Treaty of Amiens provided a brief 14-month period of peace during which long-running conflict?

    • A. The Crusades
    • B. The Hundred Years' War
    • C. The Napoleonic Wars
    • D. The American Revolution
  20. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) saw which nation exit World War I after losing significan't territory to the Central Powers?

    • A. Ottoman Empire
    • B. Italy
    • C. Russia
    • D. Austria-Hungary