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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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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.
Instead he founded the Union of Democratic Control, a pressure group which advocated a negotiated peace and a League of Nations.
Future wars were to be deterred by the League of Nations, which would take collective action against aggressor states.
The same was true of various attempts made by the League of Nations during the interwar period to achieve world disarmament.
After the war the League of Nations gave Britain, Australia, and New Zealand a trustee mandate over the territory.

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