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Liberal internationalists whose idealism survived the Paris peace conference attached high hopes to the League of Nations and its procedures for the settlement of international disputes (no. 60). But its membership was limited and the territorial settlement which it was bound to uphold soon came under criticism and pressure. Old liberal assumptions, already challenged by the Russian Revolution, were also attacked from the Right. Authoritarian régimes thrived on post-war discontent; Mussolini’s Fascists and Hitler’s Nazis were the major European examples (no. 61). Meanwhile, in Asia, aggressive soldiers dominated the government of Japan which in 1931 invaded Manchuria (no. 62).
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Bridges, R.C., Dukes, P., Hargreaves, J.D., Scott, W. (1969). The Second World War. In: Bridges, R.C., Dukes, P., Hargreaves, J.D., Scott, W. (eds) Nations & Empires. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15338-1_8
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