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5: League of Nations Pt. 2 - Around the World

History of the Second World War

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The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

The League of Nations was given the responsibility of monitoring and enforcing the mandate system to make sure that those within the mandates were treated fairly. The problems with the mandate system became clear very quickly after the end of the First World War. This would be followed in the early 1930s by the first major test of the League's ability to protect and ensure the security of all of its members. Japanese expansionism would cause an international incident in Manchuria, testing the unity of the League as a whole.

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