The Locarno Treaties were a set of agreements negotiated in the Swiss town of Locarno in October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December. The key agreement, the Rhineland Pact, was one in which Germany, France and Belgium accepted their common borders as fixed by the Treaty of Versailles, with Britain and Italy acting as guarantors. Germany also signed arbitration treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, but its eastern borders were not guaranteed in the same way. The treaties led to Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926 and created the so-called spirit of Locarno, a period of improved relations. The foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain received Nobel Peace Prizes for their work. Hitler broke the pact by remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936.
Before and after
- 10 July 1925Birth of Mahathir Mohamad
- 18 July 1925Publication of Mein Kampf
- 2 September 1925Founding of Bank of Albania
- 13 October 1925Birth of Margaret Thatcher
- 16 October 1925Locarno Treaties
- 20 November 1925Birth of Robert F. Kennedy
- from 27 November 1925 to 15 September 1926Urtatagai conflict
- from 12 December 1925 to 1 April 1979Pahlavi dynasty
- from 1926 to 1928Northern Expedition
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