What made the Kellogg-briand pact weak?

Answer 1

It did not include any enforcement mechanism. it failed to halt aggression in the 1930s-by Japan in Manchuria (1931) and by Italy in Ethiopia (1935)-and was thus discredited by the time World War II broke out. It was not strong enough

Answer 2

On aug 27, 1927 14 nations

signed this pact

written to outlaw war. Eventually 62 nations signed this pact. Its weakness were the sanctions which rested on the moral force of world opinion

. In other words it had no clout, no major sanctions it could bring to any nation that violated it.

Answer 3

Despite the terrible lesson experience of WWI, which showed very clearly that war is not a good idea, foolish people failed to learn the lesson of history, and thought that if they just tried it one more time, this time it would work. And it is very easy to violate a treaty.

Answer 4

63 nations signed the Kellogg-Brian pact in 1982. However within a few years Japan, Germany and Italy had invaded independent nations devoid of legitimate provocation.

Answer 5

There was no military enforcement to back it. They called for limited arms but then had none to defend the treaty.

Answer 6

because it offered to way to punish violators without going to war, which was the whole point of the act.