At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s led nations such as Japan and Italy to launch invasions of Manchuria and Abyssinia respectively.
The Treaty of Trianon was signed between Hungary and most of the Allies of the First World War.
The French government sold the entire Louisiana Territory, which included an area that now forms part of fifteen separate states, at less than 3 cents per acre.
The Treaty of Rapallo meant the two countries ended all territorial and financial arguments stemming from the previous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and agreed to ‘co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both countries’.
The EEC, sometimes referred to as the Common Market, survived until 2009 when it was absorbed into the European Union.
The country lost approximately a third of the entire Russian population alongside around one million square miles of land including fertile farmland, natural resources, and industrial areas.
On the 8th January 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress in which he outlined his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
On the 17th September 1978 the Camp David Accords, which led to the first ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state, were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
The 28th June saw both the trigger and the definitive end of the First World War.
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