USA HISTORY

This agreement was outside the League. This Pact outlawed war. Initially 15 countries, and eventually 68 countries, agreed never again to use war as foreign policy.

(A) Locarno Pacts 1925

(B) Treaty of Rapallo

(C) Dawes Plan 1924

(D) ** Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

Concept note-1: -In the final version of the pact, they agreed upon two clauses: the first outlawed war as an instrument of national policy and the second called upon signatories to settle their disputes by peaceful means. On August 27, 1928, fifteen nations signed the pact at Paris.

Concept note-2: -The pact was first signed on 27 August 1928 in Paris at the French Foreign Ministry by the representatives from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, and the United States.

Concept note-3: -Kellogg-Briand Pact, also called Pact of Paris, (August 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.

Concept note-4: -The Kellogg-Briand Pact was written by United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand. It went into effect on July 24, 1929, and before long had a total of 62 signatories.