USA HISTORY

Which are the following referencing?**Effectively ended fighting between Japan and Russia regarding territory disputes over Asia.**Mediated by President Roosevelt in 1905**T. Roosevelt became 1st President to receive Nobel Peace Prize for involvement in this.

(A) ** Treaty of Portsmouth

(B) Southeast Asia Treaty

(C) Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty

(D) Treaty of Paris

Concept note-1: -The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The negotiations took place in August in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and were brokered in part by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

Concept note-2: -At the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt assisted Japan in various forms including financial assistance to check the invasion of Manchuria by Russia, and contributed to the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty (Portsmouth Treaty) hoping the peace under the balanced power between Japan and Russia.

Concept note-3: -The two countries signed a nonaggression pact in 1941, although the Soviet government declared war on Japan anyway in August 1945, invading the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo as well as seizing the Kuril chain of islands just north of Japan.

Concept note-4: -The Russo-Japanese War was a war between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire. It started in 1904 and ended in 1905. The Japanese won the war, and the Russians lost. The war happened because the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire disagreed over who should get parts of Manchuria and Korea.