disarmament

(noun)

The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war

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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.
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