1955 Treaty

Austrian State Treaty

Name: Austrian State Treaty
Start: 1955

The four powers withdraw; Austria proclaims perpetual neutrality.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1955 — the context national timelines leave out.

1 year later Budapest uprising Hungary
2 years later Treaties of Rome
3 years earlier Seat of the High Authority Luxembourg
5 years earlier Schuman Declaration
6 years earlier Bonn Basic Law Germany
7 years later Second Vatican Council Vatican City
13 years later Prague Spring Czechia
14 years earlier Occupation and destruction Belarus

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.
Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

Countries involved

Austria

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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

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