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Paris Peace Conference
he meeting of the Allied victors in WWI to set peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations, and to deal with the empires of the defeated powers following the Armistice of 1918. It took place in Paris and they had met in an attempt to form a lasting peace throughout the world. -
League of Nations
Was established to prevent another war (after WWI). -
Washington Treaties
The recognition of China's territorial integreity and the signatories's spheres in Asia were guaranteed by the Nine Power Pact and the Four Power Pact. -
Treaty of Rapallo
Agreement between both Germany and Russia to cancel any pre-war debts -
French occupation of Ruhr
Germany defaulted its reparations to France, so the French moved in to occupy the Ruhr. -
Dawes Plan
Financial aid offered to Germany by the US for assisting in restructuring of reparation payments after WWI in loans. -
Locarno Treaties
Agreement defining Germany's western borders with France and Belgium with Britain and Italy as guarantors. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Renounces aggresive war but offended no one or had any machinery of enforcementIllusion of peace and security. -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II. -
Ethiopia invaded by Italy
Ethiopia which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer in the 1890s, was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa.
