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World leaders signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Paris on Aug. 27, 1928. Aristide Briand sits at a desk signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact in a formal room, surrounded by officials and onlookers in 1928. Kellogg-Briand Pact
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World leaders signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Paris on Aug. 27, 1928.
World leaders signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Paris on Aug. 27, 1928.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

international agreement [1928]
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Kellogg-Briand Pact, (August 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I. Hoping to tie the United States into a system of protective alliances directed against a possible resurgence of German aggression, the French foreign minister, Aristide Briand, first suggested a bilateral nonaggression pact in the spring of 1927. The U.S. secretary of state, Frank...

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