Collective security
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An international response whose failure characterised the reaction to Axis aggression, as the League of Nations failed to counter the Japanese war in China or Italy's invasion of Albania.
The League of Nations' mandate was undermined when the USA's isolationism deprived it of crucial economic backing.
Topics that use Collective security
- 2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941 (A-level only) – Second World War, 1917–1941 The end of the First World War and the peace settlement, 1917–1923 (AQA A-Level)
- 2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941 (A-level only) – The coming of war, 1935–1941 (AQA A-Level)
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- Aggression
- Alliances
- Appeasement
- Balance of power
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- Ideological conflict
- Imperial collapse and regime change
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