Person1862 – 1932
Aristide Briand
French statesman, many times prime minister, who as foreign minister championed the Locarno Treaties and the Kellogg–Briand Pact
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
Germany, France and Belgium agreed to respect each other’s borders, with Britain and Italy as guarantors. Germany joined the League of Nations the next year as a spirit of international cooperation took hold.
- 2
On the initiative of French foreign minister Briand and US Secretary of State Kellogg, the powers pledged to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
People who appear alongside
- Gustav Stresemann1878 – 1929
Weimar chancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923–1929) who ended the hyperinflation and brought Germany back into the international community through Locarno
- Benito Mussolini1883 – 1945
Founder of Italian Fascism who became prime minister (1922–1943) after the March on Rome; dictator who invaded Ethiopia and allied with Hitler
- Frank B. Kellogg1856 – 1937
US Secretary of State (1925–1929) who, with Briand, brought about the Pact of Paris; Nobel Peace Prize 1929
Themes this person appears in
- The Great Depression and Totalitarianism1919 – 1939
From the Washington Conference to the invasion of Poland — two decades in which the age of international cooperation collapsed in the Depression, fascism, Nazism and Stalinism rose, and the world slid into war again