Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)



Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

What: The Kellogg- Briand pact or the Paris Peace Pact was an international treaty "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." The pact was a proposal to stop all war and encoraged all countries to sign. The pact was unsuccessfull but helped later on for the develpoment of international laws.

Who: The pact was named after American secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand who drafted the pact. The Kellogg- Briand pact was a renunciation of war between France and the US but was a proposal for no war and was open for all to sign. By July 24, 1929, 63 nations signed the pact.

Where: The Kellogg- Briand pact was signed in Paris that’s why it is also called the Paris Peace Pact.

When: France and the US originally signed The Pact on Aug 27, 1928. But on July 24, 1929 when the pact was supposed to go into effect 63 nations had signed.

Why: The pact was supposed to end war but the Kellogg-Briand pact failed because of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, and the German invasion of Poland in 1939.The pact did some good for international laws and is still know in the US as a federal law.

Failure of Collective Security:

The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an attempt to end the war. Sixty plus

nations signed this pact hoping it would be a problem solver. The main

theory was that all nations banding together could easily bring peace. In the

end that did not work as Japan invaded Manchurian, Germany invaded Poland and Italy invaded Abyssinia. That right there broke the pact. In that case after the invasion the pact ended on the failure of collective security.

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