Summary.
The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements designed to adress the post-war territorial settlements and normalizing relations with defeated Germany. The Kellog-Briand pact was signed August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan,Weimar Germany and a number of other countries. It renounced war as a means of settling disputes, it was unsuccessful in doing so.
Locarno and the Kellog-Briand Pacts
- The Locarno treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland in October, 1925
- First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement
- Locarno divided Europe into two categories western and eastern borders of Germany
- The Kellog-Briand Pact prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy"
- The pact was the resulted of a determined effort by America to avoid involvement in European alliance system
- Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany signed
- The Kellogg–Briand Pact is named after its authors: Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand
- 15 nations agreed not to use war to solve disputes
- Denouncing war as a method of solving disputes
- The Kellog-Briand Pact did not achieve its goal of ending war
- Won Nobel peace prize for this...
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