Kellogg-Briand Pact

Examples of Kellogg-Briand Pact in the following topics:

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • ., Germany, and France signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a war-prevention effort that attempted to declare war illegal.
  • Kellogg, as shown in and French foreign minister Aristide Briand, as shown in .
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact was established with similar war-prevention goals in mind.
  • The 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact was concluded outside the League of Nations, and remains a binding treaty under international law.
  • As a practical matter, the Kellogg–Briand Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war, and in this sense it made no immediate contribution to international peace and proved to be ineffective in the years to come.

• Promoting Peace Abroad

  • Coolidge's best-known foreign policy initiative was the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928, named for Coolidge's Secretary of State, Frank B.
  • Kellogg, and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand.
  • This map indicates the nations that were party to the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928 and their degree of involvement in the treaty.
  • Describe economic and political neocolonialism, as well as the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928

• Attempts at Disarmament

  • The principal treaty concluded at Locarno was the Rhineland Pact between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
  • In August 1928, Germany, France and the United States signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, brainchild of American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (following the original signatories, other nations joined, eventually reaching the number of 62).
  • The Pact was an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them."
  • However, it did not hold the United States to the conditions of any existing treaties, it still allowed European nations the right to self-defense, and it stated that if one nation broke the Pact, it would be up to the other signatories to enforce it.
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact was more of a sign of good intentions on the part of the US, rather than a legitimate step towards the sustenance of world peace.

• Postwar Isolationism

  • In August 1928, Germany, France and the United States signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, brainchild of American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (following the original signatories, other nations joined, eventually reaching the number of 62).
  • The pact aimed to outlaw war and show the United States' commitment to international peace.
  • However, it did not hold the United States to the conditions of any existing treaties, it still allowed European nations the right to self-defense, and it stated that if one nation broke the Pact, it would be up to the other signatories to enforce it.
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact was more of a sign of good intentions on the part of the US, rather than a legitimate step towards the sustenance of world peace.

• The Republican Era

  • Coolidge's best-known initiative was the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928,which committed signatories including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another. " The treaty did not achieve its intended result, but did provide the founding principle for international law after World War II.