The Guardians. The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
2015
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The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. The land empires fragmented, while Germany's colonies and the Ottoman Empire's Middle East provinces fell into allied hands. All Allied powers wanted to keep those conquests, but Woodrow Wilson and millions around the globe afire for self-determination thought otherwise. At the Paris Peace conference it was agreed that the new conquests would be governed under ‘mandate’ from the League of Nations as a ‘sacred trust of civilization’. That... Voir plus
