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When was the Lombard-Verbot agreement, and what did it entail?

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The Lombard-Verbot agreement appears to be a confusion with the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international agreement from the 1920s that sought to renounce war as an instrument of national policy but lacked enforcement mechanisms.

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The student seems to have confused the Lombard-Verbot agreement with the Kellogg-Briand Pact of the late 1920s. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an international agreement initiated by U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. This pact, which a total of 62 nations eventually signed, renounced war as an instrument of national policy. Although it was created with the optimistic idea of preventing future conflicts, the pact lacked mechanisms for enforcement, leading to its ineffectiveness as nations continued to engage in aggressive military policies throughout the 1930s.

The Lombards were a Germanic tribe that established a kingdom in Italy, which eventually fell to Charlemagne in 774. This historical reference is unrelated to the Kellogg-Briand Pact. There is no documented 'Lombard-Verbot' agreement in relation to the Kellogg-Briand Pact or the World War treaties and restrictions imposed on Germany which limited their military capacities post-World War I, as indicated in other parts of the information provided.

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