Kellogg-Briand Pact

The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement signed in August 1928 by 63 countries, which all promised, after the horrors of the First World War (1914-18), to regard war as an illegal instrument of national policy. Unfortunately, this sentiment for peace and cooperation was not upheld by all future leaders, and the pact was broken several times through the 1930s by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan, to name just a few. Acts of aggression by totalitarian states once more led the world down the pitiless path to war in 1939 when the Second World War broke out.