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treaty of locarno
Title: treaty of locarno
Category: History
Details: Words: 1421 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
treaty of locarno
international relations
The Locarno era and the dream of disarmament
The Locarno treaties promised a new era of reconciliation that seemed fulfilled in the mid-to-late 1920s as the European and world economies recovered and the German electorate turned its back on extremists of the right and left. Locarno had also anticipated Germany's entry into the League. But the prospect of expanding the League Council kicked off an indelicate scramble for Council seats as Britain supported …showed first 75 words of 1421 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1421 total…Belgian, French, Czechoslovak, and Polish neighbors. The treaties were to operate within the framework of the League of Nations, which Germany joined in 1926.
Initially the "spirit of Locarno" helped improve relations between France and Germany, but relations worsened again in the 1930s. German leader Adolf Hitler denounced the principal Locarno Treaty and ordered the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936. Germany's aggression, unchallenged by the other signers of the Locarno treaties, brought on World War II (1939-1945
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