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1st Geneva Convention
1st Geneva Convention signed in 1864 detailing the protection for the wounded and the sick as well as protection for medical and religous personnel.
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Reconstruction Act
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Change in US Military Policy on Civilians
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Posse Comitatus Act
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2nd Geneva Convention
The second Geneva Convention that specifies th caring for the shiprwrecked, marooned, injured, and sick within naval warfare.
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Hague Protocol
Estblishment of an international court of prize which would justify weither a ship had been rightfully capured by an opposing vessel.
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3rd Geneva Convention
The Third Geneva Convention focused on prisoners of war and more clearly and specifially desinated the treatment of prisoners of war.
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4th Geneva Convention
This Geneva Convention was signed in the aftermath of ww2. It detailed the protection of civilians inside combat zones after millions of people lost their live to war. It details simply that no civilian shall be targeted or killed.
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Article 3
This addition to the Geneva protocols allowed the red cross to operate in times of conflict and made it so that soldiers must respect the red cross. It also stated more importantly that all the rules of the Geenva conventions apply to non-international armed conflicts.
(council on foreign relations)
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