The Kellogg-Briand Treaty, also known as the Pact (treaty) of Paris, was signed on August 27th, 1928 as an international effort to prevent having another World War and it was significant in the peace movement. The treaty was originally proposed by an U.S. Secretary of States, Frank B. Kellogg and a French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aristide Briand after World War I, hoping for peace in the world. However, Kellogg feared that some nations could assume that France and the U.S. had an alliance, if they signed a treaty together. Since Kellogg believed that to seem like being allied with France would cause a war, he decided to have other nations sign it as well. As a result, the pact was immediately signed by 14 countries, then eventually 62 countries in total, who agreed on outlawing war as an international policy and solving matters peacefully. However, the treaty was a fail, because it did not help to prevent the rise of military powers and made no immediate contribution to international peace. The treaty eventually falls by Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, Italy's invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, and German's invasion on Poland in 1939, and as a result, World War II began.
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