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| 1782 | Franklin, Benjamin |  |
| 12th April Washington American-British Peace talks begin when Benjamin Franklin meets Richard Oswald |
| 30th Nov Puts his signature to the preliminary peace treaty |
| 1783 | Jay, John | |
| Paris With Benjamin Franklin & John Adams , concludes the American revolution |
| 1783 | Washington, George | |
| 11th April Washington Congress formally proclaims end to War against Britain |
| 1784 | Washington, George | |
| 14th Jan Paris The USACongress ratifies the treaty of Paris |
| 1865 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 2nd Mar Washington Rejects General Lee's plea for peace talks & demands unconditional surrender |
| 1898 | McKinley, William | |
| 7th Aug Washington Spain accepts McKinley's peace terms |
| 1905 | Roosevelt, Theodore | |
| Washington Presides over the Peace negotiations |
| 1916 | Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| Offers to mediate war aims of the Allies & Central Powers, the Germans fail to answer |
| 5th Aug Offers the good offices of the USAin the interests of peace |
| 1918 | Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 8th Jan "a general association of nations..under specific covenants", League of Nations |
| 8th Jan Includes redrawing of Italian frontiers according to nationalities |
| 8th Jan Includes settlement of the Alsace-Lorraine question |
| 8th Jan Includes the establishment of an independent Poland |
| 8th Jan Includes the preservation of Belgian sovereignty |
| 8th Jan Include Turkish control only of their own peoples |
| 8th Jan Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points peace program |
| 3rd Oct Germany requests an armistice |
| 23rd Oct Says that military rulers & autocratic monarchs in German are an obstacle to peace |
| 1921 | Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| 25th Aug Berlin The USAsigns a peace Treaty with Germany in Berlin |
| 1942 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| 2nd Jan Britain, the USA, China & 22 Allies agree not to make a separate peace with Germany |
| 1951 | Truman, Harry S | |
| 12th Nov Panmunjon Peace negotiations take place at Panmunjon |
| 1953 | Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| Washington Signs a truce ending the Korean War |
| 1960 | Fermi, Enrico | |
| Awarded in recognition for supporting the peaceful use of atomic energy |
| 1961 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 28th Jan Announces plans for a corps of volunteers to improve conditions in undeveloped nations |
| 1st Mar Announces the Peace Corps has been created |
| 22nd Sep Washington Signs a law making the Peace Corps permanent |
| 1965 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| 22nd Dec Washington Announces a 36 hr cease-fire commencing Chris tmas eve to negotiate with Nth Vietnam |
| 27th Dec Washington Agrees to extend the cease-fire indefinitley to promote negotiations with Nth Vietnam |
| 1966 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| 2nd Feb Washington A Harris poll supports this & an increase in USAtroop levels to 500,000 |
| 2nd Feb Washington At a National Security Council decides to end the cease-fire |
| 1966 | McNamara, Robert | |
| 23rd June Proposes Johnson negotiate with because a military solution is impossible |
| 1968 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| 31st Oct Announces negotiations will begin, 5 days before the Presidential Election |
| 1968 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| 20th Dec Washington A message is sent to Hanoi indicating an interest in a peace settlement |
| 1968 | Vance, Cyrus | |
| Sent as representitive to forward proposals to cease bombing, conditions are rejected |
| 11th Oct Preconditions to cease bombing are made informal, they are still rejected |
| 1969 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| 25th Jan Washington The first substantive peace talks in Paris |
| 8th June Washington Announces the withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from Vietnam |
| 8th June Washington Meets President Thieu on Midway Island who supports the USApeace proposals |
| 2nd Aug Washington Meets President Ceausescu who agrees to help set up the peace talks with Nth Vietnam |
| 1970 | Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| An international conference reaches a settlement |
| Nixon & Kissinger support a cease-fire |
| 20th Feb Paris Begins secret talks in Paris with Le Duc Tho |
| June Paris Le Duc Tho & Kissinger meet in Paris for 3rd round of talks |
| 1970 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| 20th April Washington Announces the withdrawal of 60,000 troops in 1970 & 90,000 in 1971 |
| 7th Oct Washington Cease-fire proposals are rejected by North Vietnam |
| 7th Oct Washington Proposes "standstill cease-fire" on TV as part of five point peace plan for Indochina |
| 7th Oct Washington The standstill cease-fire is supported by McGovern, Hatfield & the press |
| 8th Oct Washington Says standstill ceasefire depends on "mutual withdrawal", unacceptable to the Vietcong |
| 1971 | McGovern, George | |
| Senate defeats a bill co-sponsored by McGovern to bring all the GIs home by Dec 31 |
| 1972 | Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| Kissinger TV press conference Oct. 26 - "peace is at hand" |
| Paris Negotiates the Paris Peace Settlement with Le Duc Tho |
| 25th Jan Washington Nixon announce Kissinger has been secretly negotiating for peace in Paris |
| 26th Oct Kissinger claims "peace was at hand" |
| 26th Oct Kissinger flies to Saigon to secure President Thieu's signature to a peace agreement |
| 1972 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| 25th Jan Washington Nixon announce Kissinger has been secretly negotiating for peace in Paris |
| 25th Jan Washington The 8 point peace proposal to nth Vietnam is made public |
| 12th Nov Washington Announces USAtroop reduction to 45,000 in Vietnam |
| 1973 | Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| 23rd Jan Hanoi & Washington impose an agreement on Saigon |
| 23rd Jan Paris The Paris Peace Agreement is signed |
| 27th Jan Makes a peace agreement with Le Duc Tho |
| 27th Jan Makes provision for the release of USAPOWs & withdrawal of USAforces from Vietnam |
| 27th Jan Provides for talks between Hanoi & Saigon which break up in April 1974 |
| 1973 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Washington Conclusion of peace negotiations by Henry Kissinger & an end of USAinvolvement |
| 15th Jan Washington Halts the USAoffensive in Vietnam |
| 23rd Jan Hanoi & Washington impose an agreement on Saigon |
| 23rd Jan Washington Peace Accords are signed with Nth Vietnam |
| 27th Jan Washington Signs a cease-fire in Paris & calls it "peace with honor" |
| Mar Washington The last ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam |
| 1973 | Rogers, William | |
| 27th Jan Signs the Paris Peace Agreement which allows South Vietnam its political sovereignty |
| 1998 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 23rd May Says of Nth Ireland, "Peace is no longer a dream. It is a reality" |
| 1999 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Washington Visited by leaders of Nothern Ireland political parties |
