The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also called the Pact of Paris, was an international agreement in which the signatory states renounced war as an instrument of national policy and agreed to settle disputes only by peaceful means. It was named for the American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and the French foreign minister Aristide Briand, and it was signed by many countries, including Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. The pact had no means of enforcement, and it failed to prevent the aggression of the 1930s, such as Japan's invasion of Manchuria and Italy's attack on Ethiopia. Nevertheless, it later served as a basis for the concept of crimes against peace in the Nuremberg trials.
Before and after
- 25 June 1928Birth of Alexei Abrikosov
- 26 July 1928Birth of Francesco Cossiga
- 26 July 1928Birth of Stanley Kubrick
- 6 August 1928Birth of Andy Warhol
- 27 August 1928Kellogg-Briand pact
- 15 September 1928Establishment of Bryce Canyon National Park
- 30 September 1928Birth of Elie Wiesel
- 1 October 1928Construction of Los Angeles International Airport
- 10 November 1928Birth of Ennio Morricone
More in Wars, politics & history
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- 23 August 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940Winter War
- from 22 June 1941 to 7 May 1945Eastern Front
- from 22 June 1941 to 5 December 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 7 December 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
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