Why The Kellogg Briand Pact

The Kellogg Briand Pact served as a group of compromises mashed together to make a worldwide peace treaty to end all wars and conflict between the nations, the government, and the citizens of each nation, it was first developed in 1928 by a man named Frank B Kellogg and his many followers. Its original purpose as stated by many newspapers and sources from around the time was to put an end to war starting with the Outlaw War.1 The idea of the Kellogg Briand Pact was not to stop all wars, but it was to resort to more of a peaceful agreement to a conflict or problem before jumping to war with one another, although the idea was approved there was a condition that the pact would be signed if it were to allow the military to start wars of self-defense
Kellogg, to nullify the use of conflict and wars as solutions to problems or issues caused the government and the people of the United States of
At first France desired the amendment of the simple draft treaty to make it char in the first place that wars of ”self-defense“ would not be banned; secondly, that the violation of the treaty by any of the signatory powers automatically released the other signatories; and, finally, that nothing in the treaty impaired the covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno treaties, and the ”treaties of neutrality“-the pacts which created the Little Entente in Central Europe.2 Out of it, a curious state of affairs arose whereby these points actually became reservations, although they are not part of the pact itself. But in this case, it was felt that the sole value of the treaty lay not in its binding effect—which admittedly is practically nil—but in the ”moral“ effect which the knowledge of its existence would have on public opinion-which, it was hoped, would be very great. The first major test of the pact came just a few years later in 1931 when the Mukden Incident led to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Though Japan had signed the pact, the combination of the worldwide depression and a limited desire to go to war to preserve China prevented the League of Nations or the United States from taking any action to enforce it. Further threats to the Peace Agreement also came from fellow