Kellogg-Briand Pact
Interwar peace treaty
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory nations renounced war as an instrument of national policy.
Named for U.S.
Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, it was signed by most world powers but lacked enforcement mechanisms.
The pact's failure to prevent World War II made it a byword for idealistic but toothless diplomacy.
- United StatesNorth American federal republic
- FranceWestern European republic
- appeasementSatisfying demands to prevent conflict
- interwar period1918 to 1939
- League of NationsEarly twentieth-century international body
Germany · renunciation · peace treaty · outlawry · idealism · paper tiger · United Kingdom · non-aggression pacts · moral suasion · Japan · treaty · war crime · Paris Peace Conference · Italy · World War I · Soviet Union · armistice · Poland
- arms controlarms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, arms deals, arms reduction
- Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge, vice president, vice presidency, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover
- Interwar ArchivesMunich Agreement, diplomatic cables, disarmament talks, propaganda posters
- Interwar EraLeague of Nations, Weimar Republic, Treaty of Versailles, Treaty of Trianon, Versailles Treaty
- Interwar InstitutionsLeague of Nations, Comintern, Nazi Party, Weimar Republic, Bauhaus
- Peace TreatiesTreaty of Versailles, Treaty of Paris, Versailles Treaty, peace accord, Treaty of Westphalia
Kellogg-Briand Pactdeclaration of war
Formal announcement of hostilities
military alliance · casus belli · Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact · NATO · Warsaw Pact
Kellogg-Briand PactTreaty of Versailles
1919 settlement ending WWI
Congress of Vienna · Peace of Westphalia · Geneva Conventions · United Nations Charter · Marshall Plan
Kellogg-Briand Pactarms race
Escalating weapons accumulation between nations
military buildup · rearmament · nuclear deterrence · balance of power · militarism