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Partnership for Peace
(Encyclopedia)Partnership for Peace: see under North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ...peace of God
(Encyclopedia)peace of God: see truce of God.Paris Peace Conference
(Encyclopedia)Paris Peace Conference, 1919: see Versailles, Treaty of. ...Oliva, Peace of
(Encyclopedia)Oliva, Peace of ōlēˈvə, –vä [key], 1660, treaty signed at Oliva (now a suburb of Gdańsk) by Poland and Sweden. John II of Poland renounced the theoretical claim of his line to the Swedish crow...Utrecht, Peace of
(Encyclopedia)Utrecht, Peace of, series of treaties that concluded the War of the Spanish Succession. It put an end to French expansion and signaled the rise of the British Empire. By the treaty between England and...calumet, peace pipe
(Encyclopedia)calumet [Fr.,=reed], name given by the French to the peace pipe used by the indigenous people of North America for smoking tobacco; it consisted of a long, feathered stem, with or without a pipe bowl....Szatmár, Peace of
(Encyclopedia)Szatmár, Peace of: see Rákóczy. ...Westphalia, Peace of
(Encyclopedia)Westphalia, Peace of, 1648, general settlement ending the Thirty Years War. It marked the end of the Holy Roman Empire as an effective institution and inaugurated the modern European state system. The...Williams, Betty
(Encyclopedia)Williams, Betty, 1943–2020, Northern Irish peace activist, b. Belfast as Elizabeth Smyth. In Aug., 1976, Williams, a receptionist, witnessed the death of three children when a car driven by an Irish...Arnoldson, Klas Pontus
(Encyclopedia)Arnoldson, Klas Pontus kläs pônˈtəs ärˈnôldsōn [key], 1844–1916, Swedish journalist and peace advocate. His untiring efforts for peace were rewarded by the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize, which he s...Browse by Subject
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