The Chinese secret group pledged to rid the country of foreign devils were called Boxers.
germany hated the world and pledged revenge on everyone :)
Hitler's rise to power, most notably. The German people still harbored animosity toward Europe over reparations from World War I, and many supported Hitler's call for a larger German state. He quickly began expanding the new German Empire through annexation of smaller nations, and then began attacking other countries who wouldn't join him (except for those who pledged neutrality, such as the USSR). When he invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Great Britain and her allies (including Canada, Australia, British India, New Zealand, etc.) declared war on Hitler and his allies.
Some points: * France & Britain failed to resist the German reoccupation of the Rhineland * The great powers stayed out of the Spanish Civil War * France & Britain failed to resist the German invasion of Austria * France & Britain attempted to maintain European peace at the Munich Conference * On 31 march 1939, France & Britain pledged to support Poland against a German attack * Nazi Germany & communist Russia signed a friendship/non-aggression pact in August 1939 * Between August & October of 1940 airmen from Britain, the commonwealth, France and Poland took on the Nazi airforce over the skies of Britian.
Much of Europe was repulsed by the murder of the royal family by rebels in France and formed an alliance against them. While Alexander Hamilton, agreed with Europe and pledged support to England, Thomas Jefferson disagreed and pledged support to France while George Washington remained neutral.
The KelloggÐBriand Pact is an agreement originating in 1928 that was signed by many nations. These signatory countries have pledged to resolve disputes through diplomacy, not force.
The United Nations was chartered as an organization on June 26, 1945 at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. (Poland later signed the agreement, becoming one of the 51 original members.) The UN was officially created on October 24, 1945 when the agreement was ratified by a majority of the signatory nations. In many member countries, October 24 is celebrated as United Nations Day.The actual title was coined by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the Declaration by United Nations (Atlantic Charter) of January 1, 1942. Representatives of 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers, upon whom the US had declared war the month before.
Atlantic
They were called the Allied Forces, or simply, Allies.
United Nations
The United front by Nations large and small to end Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. They had branded him an outlaw and had all pledged a major army to seek him out and destroy him. It also created a Germanic Confederation and pledged a return of the Monarchy to France.
Australia has pledged $7.6 million (Aust. $10 million) in emergency aid to assist Asian nations struck by the tsunamis.
They pledged the united states to freedom!
The Munich Pledge was to pledged their support in guaranteeing Polish independence.
SALT II pledged the nations to limit nuclear arms production.
Greece and Turkey
This was a series of international treaties where countries pledged to come to the aid of any of the other members of the alliance should one be attacked by any other country.