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| 1925 | Stressman, Gustav |  |
| Locarno Germany signs arbitration conventions with France and Belgium and arbitration treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, refering disputes to an arbitral tribunal or to the Permanent Court of International Justice |
| Locarno In its final form the treaty of Mutual Guarantee, or Rhineland Pact, as it was more popularly known, confirmed Germany's frontiers with Belgium and France as established at Versailles , including the DMZ |
| Locarno The principle treaty is signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, under which the first three signatories undertook not to attack each other, with the latter two acting as guarantors |
| 9th Feb Locarno Follows Stressman's proposal for a reciprocal of his country's western frontiers as established under the 1919 treaty of Versailles , as a means of facilitating Germany's rehabilitation among the western powers |
| 5th Oct Locarno Germany's security pact proposals result in the Locarno treaties |
| 1st Dec London 7 agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland on 5 October-16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on December 1 |
| 1926 | Stressman, Gustav | |
| Berlin Accepts the Locarno Pact |
| The "spirit of Locarno" is seen in Germany's September 1926 admission to the League of Nations |
| 24th April German-Soviet non-aggression pact |
| 1936 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| Hitler gets away with breaking the Locarno agreement which had guaranteed frontiers |
| 7th Mar Rhineland France could have acted under the treaty of Locarno to prevent the occupation |
| 7th Mar Rhineland Hitler tears up the treaty of Locarno when he sent in the German Army into the Rhineland |
| 1937 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 30th Jan Locarno Repudiates the Locarno treaty but will guarantee the independence of Holland & Belgium |
