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The pacts that drew the lines wars were later fought along: from the old dynastic alliances to NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
The pacts that drew the lines wars were later fought along: from the old dynastic alliances to NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
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Alliance between the early Roman Republic and the Latin League that ended the Latin War and set terms for shared defense and division of spoils. It anchored Rome's position in Latium for over a century.
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Secret alliance negotiated between Hannibal of Carthage and Philip V of Macedon against Rome during the Second Punic War. Roman forces captured envoys carrying the text, exposing the pact and triggering the First Macedonian War.
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Treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance between England and Portugal. It underpins the oldest alliance still in force between two states.
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Agreement under which Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania married Queen Jadwiga of Poland, converted to Christianity, and joined the two states under one crown. It began four centuries of Polish-Lithuanian union.
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Union letter joining the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under a single monarch, Eric of Pomerania. The union dominated Scandinavia until Sweden left in 1523.
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Alliance of the northern Netherlands provinces against Spanish rule, coordinating defense and finances. It functioned as a founding constitution of the Dutch Republic.
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Military alliance between France and the fledgling United States against Britain during the American Revolution. French intervention proved decisive for American independence.
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Pact among Russia, Austria, and Prussia framing post-Napoleonic order in Christian terms and defending monarchical rule. It became a symbol of conservative reaction in Europe.
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Russo-Ottoman defensive alliance whose secret article obliged the Ottomans to close the Dardanelles to foreign warships at Russia's request. It alarmed Britain and France and fed the Eastern Question.
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Defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russian attack, with terms kept secret for years. It became the core of one of the two blocs that went to war in 1914.
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Alliance between Britain and Japan aimed at checking Russian expansion in East Asia. It was Britain's first peacetime alliance in decades and emboldened Japan before the Russo-Japanese War.
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Agreements settling colonial disputes between Britain and France, notably trading British primacy in Egypt for French primacy in Morocco, with secret articles on Morocco's future. It began the alignment that became the Triple Entente.
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Agreement dividing Persia into spheres of influence and settling disputes over Afghanistan and Tibet. It completed the Triple Entente of Britain, France, and Russia.
The Anti-Comintern Pact, a union of Germany and Japan against Communism and the Third International, was signed in November 1936 and joined by Italy a year later.
This was a union of Germany and Japan against Communism and the Third International. It was signed in November 1936 and was joined by Italy a year later.Tragedy and Hope , p. 489-491
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Full military and political alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, committing each to join the other's wars. It bound Italy to Germany on the eve of the Second World War.
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Joint declaration by Roosevelt and Churchill setting out principles for the postwar world, including self-determination and freer trade. It became a founding reference for the United Nations.
Twelve Western nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, creating a collective defense alliance in which an attack on one member is treated as an attack on all.
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Founding treaty of NATO, binding North American and Western European states to treat an attack on one as an attack on all. It anchored Western defense through the Cold War and beyond.
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Alliance between the Soviet Union and the new People's Republic of China, providing Soviet aid and mutual defense against Japan or its allies. Its erosion within a decade signaled the Sino-Soviet split.
Australia, New Zealand and the United States sign the ANZUS security treaty in San Francisco, binding the three Pacific allies in collective defense.
Eight nations sign the Manila Pact creating the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, a US-led anti-communist alliance for the region. It proved weak and was dissolved in 1977.
Turkey and Iraq sign a mutual defense pact in Baghdad, soon joined by Britain, Pakistan and Iran, forming the anti-Soviet alliance later renamed the Central Treaty Organization. It dissolved in 1979.
The Soviet Union and seven Eastern European states sign the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Warsaw, creating the Eastern bloc's military alliance in response to West Germany joining NATO.
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Treaty of friendship and mutual defense binding the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites in a military alliance under Soviet command. It was NATO's counterpart until its dissolution in 1991.
Member states sign a protocol in Prague formally dissolving the Warsaw Pact after the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe, ending the Cold War's military division of the continent.
Six former Soviet states adopt a charter turning the 1992 Tashkent Collective Security Treaty into a permanent Russia-led military alliance, the CSTO.
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Trilateral security partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, centered on providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. Its announcement canceled a French submarine deal and angered Paris.
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