LAD #27: Kellogg-Briand pact 1929

The Kellogg-Briand pact 1929 was a treaty between America, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and several other countries calling for an armistice. This pact was made due to the failure of the treaty and Versailles, and seeing that the United States had never signed a treaty, they felt that it should be done in order to maintain global peace. In the pact, they pledged that war would be avoided at all costs and that issues between countries should be solved diplomatically. By 1929 forty countries had signed the treaty, making it a major breakthrough of the time.