International tensions resulting from invasion of Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia) by Italy in 1935
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Article 10
Article of the LoN Covenant which promised security to League members from attack by other states
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Assembly
The main forum of the LoN for discussing important issues
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Collective Security
The key principle of the LoN that all members could expect to be secure because the other members of the League would defend them from attack
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Commissions
Organisations set up by the LoN to tackle economic, social and health problems
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Conference of Ambassadors
An organisation involving Britain, France, Italy and Japan which met to sort out international disputes while working alongside the LoN
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Council
An influential body within the LoN which contained the most powerful members of the League (Britain, France, Japan, Italy) C
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Covenant
An agreement or set of rules
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Depression
The period of economic downturn where trade between countries and inside countries declines, often leading to unemployment
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Dictatorship
A system in which one person runs a country
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Disarmament
The process of scrapping land, sea or air weapons
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Isolationism
The policy in the USA in the 1920s which argued that the USA should not get involved in international disputes
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Manchurian crisis
An international crisis sparked off when Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. Despite investigating, the LoN failed to stop Japanese aggression.
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Military force
The use of armed force (e.g. troops, bombing by aircraft) as opposed to political or economic methods
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Moral condemnation
Criticism of a state of actions against another state (the prelude to stronger action such as economic sanctions or military force)
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Normalcy
The term used by the US President Warren Harding in the 1920s to describe the return of normal life after the First World War
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Secretariat
The section of the LoN which carried out administrative tasks and also the agencies of the League
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Tariffs
Taxes on imported goods which made them more expensive, often designed to protect makers of home-produced goods
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Trade sanctions
Restricting sale of goods to a nation or sales from a nation
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Unanimous
Agreed by all
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Wall Street Crash
The collapse in value of US companies in October 1929 which led to a widespread economic distress
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