Paul Cooney
AP American
Mr. DeCarlo
6 March 2007

LAD 27-Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

This was an international treaty, including participation from over ten delegates, "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." Essentially it’s goal was to outlaw war, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. It outlawed aggression, not a nation’s self-defense, and contained no enforcement provisions. The treaty proved to be ineffective, as cited in the actions of Japan in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.