Locarno Treaty / Kellog-Briand Pact

BUT...

Formally Signed in London

on 3rd of December

In arranging the Locarno agreemnet was recognized when they were awarded the Nobal Peace Prize in 1926

Idealistic minds towards peace

Austen Chamberlain

Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs

Put emphasis on International Relations

Thus more sympathy towards

Germany might come in to place

Purpose for Conference

Terms of the Treaty:

1. Germany accepts its borders with France and Belgium is permanent

2. Germany agrees to seek changes in her eastern borders by means of discussion, agreement and arbitration with Poland and Czechoslovakia

Implications

Benefits

BUT Moment...

Britain refused to guarantee the countries

to the east of Germany

What will happen

NEXT???

Germany accepted

the results of the First World War

Germany accepted the results of the First World War on her western borders

BUT NOT IN THE EAST

League of Nations

Germany joined the League of Nations and obtained a permanent seat on the League Council

Independent State

By 1930, the Allied occupation armies had left Germany and she became an independent state again

Allies

Allies removed their troops from the left bank fo the Rhine and the Allied commission to supervise German disarmament departed in 1927.

"The spirit of Locarno"

Tensions had been reduced as Germany had accepted it borders and renounced violence, prosperity was returning to Europe, democracy was flourishing in Germany and a general sense off optimism prevailed

France & Britain

The French and the British might also repair their relationship which had been damaged by French insistence on a hard approach to Germany

Breakthrough in France-German relations

Breakthrough in Franco-German relations and addressed the security concerns that had driven French policy at Versailles and in the years after.

German rehabilitation

Allowed Germany to be rehabilitated without posing a threat to Western Europe

Signed by 65 countries. They agreed by this action to renounce war as an instrument of national policy. (Best Spirit of Locarno)

Where & When

Signed in Paris

Disarm and keep peace!!!

Kellogg-Briand Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war

BUT IT WAS PROVEN TO BE

INEFFECTIVE IN THE END...

GREAT STEP TOWARDS

"PERMANENT PEACE"

IN EUROPE

Significance

Effect and Significance

Results / Consequences

Manchurian Crisis

Terms of the Treaty

Avoid the fear of facing Germany

Reasons Behind

Significance of these people

Kellog-Briand Pact

Stresemann and Briand

Signed in August 27, 1928

October 1925

in Locarno, Switzerland

Where & When?

Who was involved?

Aristide Briand

Austen Chamberlain

Gustave Stresemann

Who was involved

Germany

and other countries

Frank B Kellogg

Locarno Treaty

Locarno Treaty

Kellog - Briand Pact

The impression after the relatively peaceful 1920s that the risk of war had been greatly reduced and that large military establishments were no longer necessary. The optimism of the Locarno Pact and the Kellogg-Briand Agreement served to support this general viewpoint.

UK, Italy, France and Germany would carry out peaceful revisions of the treaties, would make Germany an equal partner and would resemble Locarno as a means of negotiating between France and Germany. The pact was never ratified because of French objections but it showed a move away from the League to a Concert of Europe model.