Tag: Peace

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27th August 1928: Fifteen nations including Germany, France and the United States sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war

27th August 2022
Tagged as: Aristide Briand, Frank Kellogg, Kellogg-Briand Pact, League of Nations, Paris, Peace, Treaty, War

At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s led nations such as Japan and Italy to launch invasions of Manchuria and Abyssinia respectively.

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3rd March 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed between Russia and the Central Powers

3rd March 2022
Tagged as: Brest-Litovsk, First World War, Germany, Peace, Russia, Treaty

The country lost approximately a third of the entire Russian population alongside around one million square miles of land including fertile farmland, natural resources, and industrial areas.