disarmament

Examples of disarmament in the following topics:

• Attempts at Disarmament

  • Simultaneously, an international non-governmental campaign to promote disarmament developed throughout the 1920s and early 1930s.
  • It was the first international conference held in the United States and the first disarmament conference in history.
  • The League Covenant assigned the League the task of creating a disarmament plan for each state, but the Council devolved this responsibility to a special commission set up in 1926 to prepare for the 1932–34 World Disarmament Conference.
  • The World Disarmament Conference was an effort by member states of the League of Nations, together with the U.S. and the Soviet Union, to actualize the ideology of disarmament.
  • Thus, all agreements and disarmament attempts failed.

• World War I and the League of Nations

  • Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.

• The Atlantic Charter

  • there was to be disarmament of aggressor nations, and a post-war common disarmament.

• Europe After World War II

  • The UK and US pursued a policy of industrial disarmament in Western Germany in the years 1945–1948.
  • The Allies' immediate post-war "industrial disarmament" plan for Germany had been to destroy Germany's capability to wage war by complete or partial de-industrialization.

• The League of Nations

  • Its primary goals included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.
  • One proposed remedy to this sort of damaging international affairs was the creation of an organization whose aim was to prevent future wars through disarmament, open diplomacy, international co-operation, restrictions on the right to wage war, and penalties that made war unattractive.

• The "New World Order"

  • At first, the new world order dealt almost exclusively with nuclear disarmament and security arrangements.

• The Nuclear Arms Race

  • The Soviets' proposal involved universal nuclear disarmament.

• Terms of Surrender

  • In addition, but separately, it was agreed at Yalta that an additional clause 12a would be added to the July 1944 surrender text; that the Allied Representatives "will take such steps, including the complete disarmament, demilitarisation and dismemberment of Germany as they deem requisite for future peace and security."
  • They also ordered German demilitarization, denazification, industrial disarmament and settlements of war reparations.

• The USSR

  • From 1932 to 1934, the Soviet Union participated in the World Disarmament Conference.

• The United Kingdom and Appeasement

  • The policy of collective security ran in parallel with measures to achieve international disarmament and where possible was to be based on economic sanctions against an aggressor.