Diplomatic Relations in the 1920's
After the WWI and the signing of peace treaties there were still tensions between some nations. To prevent these tensions the League of Nations was established.
I. 1919: League of Nations
- rejected the alliance system
- rejected the balance of power policy
- wanted collective security
® an organized community of nations acting together to preserve peace
1920's: The League of Nations helped settle minor disputes between small
nations, but less successful in solving crises that involved bigger nations.
II. 1924: Dawes Plan
- the USA gave loans to Germany, this way Germany could pay
reparations to Br. and Fr., and eventually Br. and Fr. could repay the
loans that they had recieved from the USA
® G. could gradually recover and pay reparations
Þ European economy recovered by the second half of the 1920's
1929: Young Plan
- it would have been the continuation of the Dawes Plan but the Great
Depression prevented it
III. 1925: Locarno Pact
- aim: to improve relations in Europe
® Western European nations:
- guaranteed the existing borders
- agreed to seek peaceful solutions to any dispute
- Germany agreed to find peaceful solutions to the dispute about its
Eastern borders (with Poland and Czechoslovakia)
® 1926: Germany joined the League of Nations
IV. 1928: Kellog-Briand Pact ( Kellog- Am. Secretary of State
Briand- Fr. Foreign Minister)
- rejected war as an instrument of national policy
® 62 nations signed it
® symbolized the optimism and idealism of the period.... but in 1929 the
whole world collapsed because of the Great Depression
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