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What does League of Nations mean?

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Proper noun
  1. An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. Its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The predecessor of the United Nations.
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After the war, Japan continued to rule the islands under a mandate from the League of Nations.
However, a few months later the Assembly of the League of Nations rejected out of hand the proposal as being premature.
The fascist states left the League of Nations to get a free hand for their aggression.
Another category of dependent imperial territory was formed by League of Nations mandates.
The question is, will the United Nations follow the League of Nations and risk irrelevancy.
Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations.

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