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  2. Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace

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    Therefore, the conference adopted a formal resolution called the Act of Chapultepec which proclaimed the principle of collective self-defense through regional pacts. This policy was adopted by the United Nations and Article 51 of the UN charter , which authorized regional security arrangements.

  3. Chapultepec Peace Accords - Wikipedia

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    The Chapultepec Peace Accords. For Maurice Lemoine, French intellectual “at the negotiating table, puts an end to a sixty-year-old military hegemony and will allow a deep reform of the State based on a series of unprecedented measures: respect for universal suffrage; reform of the judiciary; constitutional reform; separation of Defense and Public Security, downsizing of the army, creation of ...

  4. Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance - Wikipedia

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    The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance [2] (commonly known as the Rio Treaty, the Rio Pact, the Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, or by the Spanish-language acronym TIAR from Tratado Interamericano de Asistencia Recíproca) is an intergovernmental collective security agreement signed in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro at a meeting of the American states.

  5. Battle of Chapultepec - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Chapultepec took place between U.S. forces and Mexican soldiers holding the strategically located Chapultepec Castle on the outskirts of Mexico City on the 13th of September, 1847 during the Mexican–American War. The castle was built atop a 200-foot (61 m) hill in 1783, and in 1833 it was converted into a military academy and a ...

  6. List of Allied World War II conferences - Wikipedia

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    In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.

  7. List of battles of the Mexican–American War - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Chapultepec: September 13 Scott assaults Chapultepec Castle. Los Niños Héroes pass into legend. Some captured San Patricio's members were executed after the U.S. raised its flag over the castle. (A) Battle for Mexico City: September 13/14 Fierce fighting for Mexico City. (A) Siege of Puebla: September 14

  8. Niños Héroes - Wikipedia

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    Image based on the medal given to the cadets Monument to the Niños Héroes in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.. The Niños Héroes (Boy Heroes, or Heroic Cadets) were six Mexican military cadets who were killed in the defence of Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847.

  9. Chapultepec aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    The Chapultepec aqueduct (in Spanish: acueducto de Chapultepec) was built to provide potable water to Tenochtitlan, now known as Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Triple Aztec Alliance empire (formed in 1428 and ruled by the Mexica, the empire joined the three Nashua states of Tenochtitlan, Texacoco, and Tlacopan). [ 1 ]