In 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

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The one-sided war, ended in 1898 by the Treaty of Paris, effectively terminated Spain's role as a colonial power and gave the U.S. a taste of empire building.

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On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.

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It was only in 1951 that the European Union began to take shape through the Treaty of Paris and the European Steel and Coal Community.

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Iraq's widely publicized flouting of the Geneva Protocol led, a few months later-in January 1989-to the convening in Paris of a large international conference to do something to uphold the old treaty.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chemical Reaction

In January 1989, after all the photographs of gassed Iranian soldiers and Kurds had been filed in the chanceries of the enlightened nations, the world's diplomats gathered in Paris and resolutely resolved to negotiate another treaty that would prohibit chemical weapons.

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