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The Paris Peace Treaties of 1947

Official Name

The Paris Peace Treaties are made up of five separate treaties. These are called:

• Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria
• Treaty of Peace with Finland
• Treaty of Peace with Hungary
• Treaty of Peace with Italy
• Treaty of Peace with Roumania

Signatories

Each treaty was signed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia, India, New Zealand, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Union of South Africa, as well as the nation which was subject to the treaty.

Other nations signed specific treaties, such as the United States of America signing with Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy and Roumania; Canada signing with Finland, Hungary, Italy and Roumania; China, France, Belgium, Brazil, Ethiopia, the Netherlands signing only with Italy; Greece signing with Bulgaria and Italy; and the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia signing with Bulgaria, Hungary and Italy.

It was also a condition of each of the treaties that the nations recognise the other treaties of peace signed in Paris.

Dates

Each of these treaties were signed on February 10 1947. The treaties came into effect on September 15 1947.

Languages

Each treaty was written in English, Russian, French, and in the native languages of the nations subject to the treaty, such as Bulgarian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, and Roumanian.

The Paris Peace Treaties signified the official end of the war between the Allied forces and the above Axis powers in World War II. The content of the treaties was discussed and drafted by the Allies with several objectives in mind. The first was the decision on post-war borders of the Axis nations. Each border was re-drawn in order to prevent another armed conflict in Europe. The second was to ensure and protect human rights in each nation, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or disability. After the major humanitarian disaster of the extermination of peoples, and subsequent deaths of an estimated 61 million people, it was believed that the foundation needed to be set to prevent another event such as this again.

With the collapse of Germany and the Third Reich, many nations and governments collapsed and needed to be rebuilt. The treaties allowed each nation sovereignty and the ability to represent their people in the international community. The treaties also allowed the eventual joining of the nations into the United Nations.

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