The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact was passed in 1928 by nations such as Germany, France, and the United States and, though it had good intentions, was an utter failure. The pact's attempt was to create a much more peaceful world. In it, the countries which signed were agreeing to denounce war as a foreign policy or way of solving disputes. The point of this was to encourage countries to work out issues diplomatically, rather than to go to war, as was the barbaric way of the past. The United States took unofficial leadership in following through with the treaty and other countries were allowed into it as well. The reason this was largely unsuccessful was that the only way that a country can be true to enforce an international agreement is if it has military force to back up the agreement. This pact did not allow for a military to go to war to settle conflicts, so it could not settle a conflict if a country broke the pact.
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