Summary of the Kellogg-Braind Peace Pact of August, 1928:
A treaty signed between U.S. and other powers, including Great Britain, Italy, and Germany immediately (for a total of eleven nations) and by France, Poland, Belgium, and Japan within a year. It provided for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, and that should any nation that signed the treaty resort to war for national benefit, that nation would be denied the benefits of the treaty. Furthermore, the hope of the treaty is that the nations who did not sign it would eventually follow the example of the signed powers and themselves renounce war. The United States would be responsible for holding the original Treaty and adding any other nations to the Pact as they wished to be included.
A little more than a year following the signing of the treaty, forty more nations became parties to it.
The Treaty was created by Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and signed by President Coolidge, and then was later reaffirmed by President Hoover and his Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson.
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