Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
Treaty of Rapallo
France's Treaties of Mutual Assistance
Gustav Stresemann
The Locarno Pact, 1925
Disarmament
- Russia and Germany
- Allowed for German Soldiers to train in Russia
- Russia exchanged military goods
France's Treaties of Mutual Assistance
- Belgium, 1920
- Poland, 1921
- The little Entente: Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia (1924-
Gustav Stresemann
- Took over control of Weimar Germany
- Brought in the Retenmark
- Paid reparations with help of Dawes Plan
The Locarno Pact, 1925
- Begins a period of optimism "The Spirit of Locarno"
- Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Germant sign it
- Guarantees borders of european borders
- Demilitarize the Rhineland
- Brings insecurity in the set
- 15 nations including USA, Germany and Russia (Many other countries sign similar deals)
- Denounced war as a method of solving disputes
- Won nobel peace prize for this
Disarmament
- 1921 Washington Naval Conference
- 1930 London Naval Conference
- 1932 Geneva disarmament conference
"It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favora ble to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy"
- Calvin Coolidge
- Calvin Coolidge
FUN FACT: In the US the senate passed the Kellogg-Briand pact 85-1. The only one to vote against it was John L. Blaine, a republican.
Subjunctive Question
How would the Kellogg-Briand pact have worked if it was actually enforced?
Summary
Around the 1920's the world was at a time of peace, they made efforts to continue this peace with things such as the Kellogg-Briand pact, but they were not enforced and soon were proved useless.