Match the Treaty to the Conflict It Ended

The Treaty of Portsmouth, signed by Russia and Japan in 1905 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt and brought an end to the Russo-Japanese War that began in 1904.

The Thirty Years’ Peace, signed around 446 BCE, brought an end to the Peloponnesian War between the ancient Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta. The treaty failed to ensure peace between the two city-states, however, and the Second Peloponnesian War began around 430 BCE.

The Treaty of Lutatius, negotiated in 241 BCE, brought an end to the First Punic War between Carthage and the Roman Republic.

The Treaty of Frankfurt am Main was signed by France and Prussia in 1871. Under the auspices of the treaty, the defeated French ceded the territories of Alsace and Lorraine to the victorious Prussians.

The Treaty of San Francisco was signed between the U.S. and Japan in 1951, officially bringing an end to the conflict between the two nations that began after the Pearl Harbor attacks of 1941.

The Treaty of Ghent, signed by the United States and Great Britain in Ghent, Belgium, in 1814, brought an end to the War of 1812.

The Treaties of Utrecht, a series of peace agreements signed between 1713 and 1714, brought an end to the War of the Spanish Succession, a conflict between France, England, Spain, and other European powers over control of the Spanish throne.

The Treaties of Paris, signed in 1814 and 1815 by France on one side and a coalition of European powers on the other, officially brought an end to the Napoleonic Wars.

The Magna Carta was a charter of rights granted by King John of England on June 15, 1215. This charter averted a civil war between King John and rebellious noblemen resistant to the king’s rule, but perhaps more importantly, it laid the foundation for the Anglo-American jurisprudence system still in place today.

The religious wars that had devastated the continent since 1618 came to a close when the major European powers signed the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 and ended the Thirty Years’ War.

In 1947, the Allied Powers and Axis Powers signed a series of peace treaties in Paris, bringing an end to World War II in Europe.

The Treaty of Paris, between Great Britain and the United States, recognized the United States as an independent nation and brought an end to the Revolutionary War in 1783.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War in 1848. By the terms of the treaty, Mexico ceded 55% of its territory to the U.S. and relinquished its claim to Texas.

The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 were signed by the U.S., South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and North Vietnam to officially end the Vietnam War.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris in January 1919 and brought an end to World War I.