522General KnowledgeMedium
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed between Russia and Japan in?
ASeptember 5, 1904
BSeptember 5, 1905
CSeptember 5, 1906
DSeptember 4, 1905
Correct answer
B. September 5, 1905
Explanation
The negotiations took place in August in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and were brokered in part by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. The final agreement was signed in September of 1905, and it affirmed the Japanese presence in south Manchuria and Korea and ceded the southern half of the island of Sakhalin to Japan.