Conventions and Treaties
From World War I Document Archive
- Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
- (April 16, 1856)
- St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles
- (November 29 - December 11, 1868)
- Oxford Laws of War on Land
- (September 9, 1880)
- Hague Convention
- (Ratified 1899, 1907, 1926 & 1928)
- Treaty of Portsmouth
- ending the Russo-Japanese War
- (1905)
- Treaty of London
- (1915; excerpts)
- Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - English translation
- (March 3, 1918)
- Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- (Photographic facsimile with synoptic German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Russian texts)
- (March 3, 1918)
- Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- (German-language transcription)
- (March 3, 1918)
- Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- (Russian-language transcription)
- (March 3, 1918)
- Conditions of an Armistice with Germany
- (signed November 11, 1918)
- The Peace Treaty of Versailles
- (signed June 28, 1919)
- Treaty of Neuilly
- (November 27, 1919)
- Treaty of Sèvres
- (1920; never adopted, superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne).
- League of Nations Protocol
- (1920)
- Treaty of Trianon
- (signed June 4, 1920)
- US Peace Treaty with Austria
- (24 August, 1921)
- US Peace Treaty with Germany
- (25 August, 1921)
- US Peace Treaty with Hungary
- (29 August, 1921)
- Washington Conference Establishing a Commission of Jurists to Consider Laws of War
- (February 4, 1922)
- Washington Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare
- (February 6, 1922)
- San Remo Convention
- (24 July, 1922)
- The Hague Rules of Air Warfare
- (December, 1922 - February, 1923: Never adopted)
- Straits Treaty
- (June 24, 1923)
- Treaty of Lausanne
- (July 24, 1923)
- Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
- (June 17, 1925)
- Treaty Providing for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy
- (Kellogg-Briand Pact)
- (August 27, 1928)
- ending the Russo-Japanese War
