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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

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  • 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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