2. Agreements
• After Ruhr Crisis – Germany accept W
boundaries
• Locarno Treaty – 1925
• Breakthrough! Addressed French security
concerns
• E borders – changes by discussion, agreement
and arbitration with Poland and Czechoslovakia
• E borders not fixed by international guarantee
• Germany presumed Allies not against change
3. Spirit of Locarno
• Sense of euphoria – great optimism
• Germany joined League
• Disarmament commission left in 1927
• Allied troops left Germany – 1930
• Kellogg Briand Pact – 65 countries
4. New era of peace?
• Economic prosperity, failure of communism to
spread, Germany accepted Versailles
• But
• Germany had not accepted E borders
• Cooperation with USSR – Treaty of Rapallo
• Evaded disarmament clauses
• Spirit closely tied to economic health
• …and the US
