what is locarno treaty?

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this treaty was in Europe before the second world war

Answer 1

After WW1, in order to place a buffer between Germany and themselves, France and the Low Countries dictated that Rhineland was to be a demilitarized zone. In 1925, Germany was entered into the Locarno Pact with France, Britain, Belgium, and Italy to extend the demilitarization clause of the Versailles Treaty into the foreseeable future. If Germany re-arms Rhineland, Locarno Pact required the other countries to interfere, with military force if necessary. Of course, when Hitler violated this, Britain and France did nothing to stop Nazi Germany because they wanted to appease him. Lord Lothian of Britain justified it by saying "after all, [the Germans] are only going into their own back garden."

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Answer 2

Locarno Treaty

Answer 3

The Treaty of Locarno was signed in 1925 between the French and Germans. This treaty enabled Germany to become part of the League of Nations. Germany was to keep their army out of the Rhineland and Alsace-Lorraine would belong permanently to France.

When Germany could not guarantee their eastern border, France signed peace treaties with Czechoslovakia and Poland. Hitler tore up the treaty when they entered the Rhineland in 1936 and would volate the treaty with the takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 and Poland in 1939 which pecipitated the Second World War.

Answer 4

Nothing. The USA was pursuing an isolationist foreign policy at the time. Since Locarno was basically a revision to the Treaty of Versailles, which the USA had never ratified (it later signed its own peace treaty with Germany), there was really no role for the United States at Locarno. They likely were present as observer, but not as a actual participant.

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what is locarno treaty?
this treaty was in Europe before the second world war