ABSTRACT
First published in 1946, A Dictionary of International Affairs is virtually an encyclopaedia. This highly useful reference work is indispensable to all who desire to be well-informed about the world in which they live. The scope of this book is unusually wide. It deals with such varied subjects of the Chaco Dispute, Ogpu, Syndicalism, Freedom of the Seas, Balfour Declaration, etc. It also contains statistics about minerals, agricultural produce, and industrial products. In addition, it provides essential information about erstwhile colonies, islands, and nations. It brings together – in a precise style and compact form – a vast amount of basic and interesting information on almost every conceivable aspect of international affairs. Chief emphasis is given to developments since World War I – particularly to those agreements, concepts, agencies, problems, areas and resources which are of continuing importance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Aaland Islands
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Abyssinia (otherwise Ethiopia)
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Abyssinian Pact, The
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A. B. C. Nations, The
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>Aden
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Afghanistan
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Africa, British West
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Africa, French Equatorial
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Africa, French North
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Africa, French West 1
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Africa, South-West
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African Protectorates
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Air Transport, International
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Albania
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Alexandretta, Sanjak of
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Algeria
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Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen)
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Aluminium
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American Debt
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American Loan, The
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American Naval and Air Bases
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Amritsar
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Anglo-Russian Agreement
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Anglo-Turkish Alliance, The
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Angola
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Anschluss, The
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Anti-Comintern Pact
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Antimony
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Anti-Semitism
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Arab League, The
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Arabia, Oil in
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Argentina
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Arica and Tacna
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Armenia
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Armistice of 1940, French
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Aryan Decrees
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Aryans
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Asiatic Pact
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Assyrian Christians
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Atlantic Charter
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Atomic Bomb
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Ausgleich
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Australia
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Austria
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Autarky
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Axis, The Rome-Berlin
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Azerbaijan
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Azores, The
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Bahrein
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Balearic Islands
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Balfour Declaration
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Balfour Declaration (1926)
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Balfour Note
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Balkan Pact, The
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Balkan Union
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Baltic Pact, The
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Bank for International Settlements
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Barley
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Basques, The
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Basutoland
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Bauxite
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Bechuanaland
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Belgium
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Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union
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Berchtesgaden Agreement
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Berlin Conference
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Berne Convention
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Bessarabia
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Bolshevism
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Borneo, British North
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Bornholm
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Boxer Indemnity, The
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Brandenburg
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Brenner Pass
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Brest-Litovsk Treaties
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Bretton Woods Conference
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Briand Memorandum
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Bucharest, Treaty of
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Bukowina, The
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Bulgaria
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Burgenland, The
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Burma
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Cadmium
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Caliphate
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Cameroons, The
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Canary Islands
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Canton and Enderbury
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Cape Verde Islands
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Capitulations
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Caribbean Commission
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Carinthia
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Carpatho-Ukraine
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Catalonia
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Central America
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Ceuta
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Chaco Dispute, The
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Chapultepec, Act of
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Chetniks
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China
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Chrome
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Class War
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Clearing Unions, International
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Goal
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Cobalt
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Coffee
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Collective Security
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Comintern, The (properly the Third (Communist) International)
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Communism
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Communist International
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Concordat, The
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Condominium
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Confederation of States
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Congo Basin Treaties
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Congo, Belgian
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Constantinople
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Copper
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Copper Ore
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Copra
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Cotton
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Co-Prosperity Sphere, East Asia
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Corfu
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Corporate State
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Corridor, Polish
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Corsica
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Crete
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Crimea Conference
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Croatia
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Cuba
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Currency Declaration, Three Power
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Curzon Line, The
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Customs Union
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Cyprus
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Cyrenaica
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Czechoslovakia
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Dacoits
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Dakar
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Dalmatia
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Danube Commission
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Danubian Pact
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Danzig
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Dardanelles
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Dawes Plan
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Debts, Inter-Allied
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Denmark
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Disarmament
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Dobrudja
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Dodecanese
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Druzes, The
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Dumbarton Oaks Conference
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Dyarchy
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Economic Conference, World
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Economic and Social Council
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Egypt
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Eire
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Entente Cordiale
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Eritrea
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Estonia
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Ethiopia
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Eupen and Malmedy
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Exchange Control
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Extraterritoriality
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Falange (Falange Espanola), The
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F.A.O. (Food and Agriculture Organization)
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Far Eastern Commission
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Faroe Islands
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Fascism
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Fatherland Front
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Federal State; Confederation of States
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Federal Union
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Fertile Crescent
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Fifth Column
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Fighting French
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Fiji Islands
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Finland
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Fiume
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Five Power Treaty
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Flax
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Flemish Movement, The
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Formosa
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Four Freedoms, The
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Four Power Pact
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Four Power Treaty
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Fourteen Points, The
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Franco-British Union
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Franco-German Frontier
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Franco-Soviet Pact
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Freedom of the Air
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Freedom of the Seas
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Free French (later Fighting French)
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Free Ports
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Free Trade and Protection
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French Armistice
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French Colonies in America
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French Empire, The
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French Guiana
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Friendly Islands, The
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Galicia, Eastern
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Gambia
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Geneva Convention
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Geneva Free Zones
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Geneva Protocols
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Gentleman's Agreement
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Geo-Politics
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German Colonies
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Gestapo, The
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Gibraltar
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Godesberg Memorandum
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Gold
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Gold Bloc, The
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Gold Coast
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Gold Standard
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Greco-Yugoslav Union
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Greek Patriots
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Ground Nuts
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Guadeloupe
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Guam
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Guild Socialism
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Guinea, Portuguese
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Habsburg Restoration, The
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Hague Conventions
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Hatay, The
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Havana, Act of
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Havana Declaration
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Hawaii or Sandwich Islands
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Hemp
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Hispanidad
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Hoare-Laval Project
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Hong Kong
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Hoover Moratorium
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Hot Springs Conference
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Hungary
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Iceland
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Imperialism
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Imperial Preference
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Independent Workers of the World
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India
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India, French
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India, Portuguese
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Indians in Natal
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Indo-Ghina, French
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Indonesia
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Inflation
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International Justice, Permanent Court of
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International Labour Organization
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International, The Third
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Ionian Islands (see also Corfu)
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Iran
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Iran, Anglo-Soviet Treaty with
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Iraq
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Ireland
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Ireland, Northern
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Irish Boundary
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Irish Naval Stations
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Iron Ore
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Iron, Pig
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Irredentism
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Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
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I.W.W.
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Izmir
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Japan
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Java
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Julian March, The
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Jute
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Karelia
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Kellogg Pact, The
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Keynes Plan
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Khalif, The (Caliph)
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Kiaochow
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Konigsberg
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Korea
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Kuomintang
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Kurds, The
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Kuriles, The
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Kuweit
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Lapua Movement
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Lateran Treaty
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Latvia (Lettland)
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Lausanne Agreement, The
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Lausanne, Treaty of
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Lead
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Lead Ore
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League of Nations
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League of Nations (Optional Clause)
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Lebanon, The
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Lend-Lease Act
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Leninism
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Leticia Dispute
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Lettland
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Levant States
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Libya
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Liechtenstein
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Lignite and Brown Goal
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Lima, Declaration of
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Lithuania
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Little Entente, The
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Locarno Pact
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London Naval Conference
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London Naval Treaty
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London, Pact of (1915)
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Luxemburg
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Macao
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Macedonia
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Madagascar
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Madeira
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Mahasabha
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Malaya, British
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Malta
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Manchukuo
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Manchuria
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Mandate System
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Manganese
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Marshall Islands, The
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Martinique
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Marxism
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Memel
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Mexico Petroleum
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Middle East Pact
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Minorities, National
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Molybdenum
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Monetary Fund, International
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Mongolia
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Monroe Doctrine
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Montenegro
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Montoire Agreement
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Montreux Straits Convention, The
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Morgenthau Plan, The
entry |1 pages
Morgenthau Plan
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Morocco
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Moscow Agreement, The
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Moscow Declarations, The
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Most Favoured Nation Clause
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Mosul
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Mozambique (Portuguese East Africa)
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Mozambique Convention, The
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Munich Agreement
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Natal, Indians in
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National Socialism
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Nauru
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Naval Bases, American
entry |4 pages
Naval Disarmament
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Nazi
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Netherlands Indies
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Neuilly, Treaty of
entry |1 pages
New Caledonia
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New Deal, American
entry |2 pages
Newfoundland
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New Hebrides
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New Order, Nazi
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Nice
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Nickel
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Nigeria
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Nine Power Treaty
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Non-Aggression Pact
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Non-Aryan
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Non-Intervention
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Norfolk Island
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Norway
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Nürnberg Laws
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Nyon Agreement, The
entry |1 pages
Ogpu, The
entry |1 pages
Oil
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Oil, Middle East
entry |2 pages
Oil, Olive
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Oil, Palm
entry |1 pages
Open Door Policy
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Optional Clause
entry |1 pages
Oslo Block
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Oslo Convention
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Ossewabrandwag
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Ostland
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Ottawa Agreements, The
entry |2 pages
Pacific Islands, The British
entry |1 pages
Pacificism
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Pakistan
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Palestine
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Pan-Africanderdom
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Panama Canal
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Panama, Declaration of
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Pan-Americanism
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Pan-American Union
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Pantelleria
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Papua
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Permanent Court of International Justice
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Persia (otherwise Iran)
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Petroleum
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Philadelphia Charter, The
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Philippines, The
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Phosphates
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Platinum
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Plebiscite
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Pogrom
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Poland
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Polish Corridor
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Polish-Czech Declaration
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Polish Frontiers, The
entry |2 pages
Pomerania
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Popular Front
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Portuguese Colonies
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Postal Union, International
entry |1 pages
Potash
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Potsdam Conference
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Prometheus
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Protection
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Prussia, East
entry |1 pages
Pyrites
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Quicksilver
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Radium
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Rap alio, Treaty of
entry |1 pages
Rayon
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Red Gross, International
entry |1 pages
Regional Pacts
entry |4 pages
Reparations
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Rhineland, The
entry |1 pages
Rhodes
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Rhodesia
entry |1 pages
Rice
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Rubber
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Ruhr Basin, The
entry |4 pages
Rumania
entry |1 pages
Russia
entry |1 pages
Russian Alliance, Anglo
entry |2 pages
Russo-Japanese Agreements
entry |1 pages
Russo-Japanese Pact
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Ruthenia (Sub-Carpathian Russia)
entry |1 pages
Rye
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Saadabad Pact, The
entry |1 pages
Saarland
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St. Germain, Treaty of
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St. Jean de Maurienne, Treaty of
entry |1 pages
St. Pierre and Miquelon
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St. Thomé and Principe Islands
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Sakhalin
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Salonika (Thessaloniki)
entry |2 pages
Samoan Islands
entry |2 pages
Sanctions
entry |3 pages
San Francisco Conference
entry |2 pages
Sarawak
entry |1 pages
Savoy
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Savoy Free Zones (also known as the Geneva Free Zones)
entry |2 pages
Scandinavia
entry |2 pages
Schleswig-Holstein
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Seas, Freedom of the
entry |2 pages
Senussi, The
entry |1 pages
Sèvres, Treaty of
entry |2 pages
Shanghai
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Siam
entry |1 pages
Sierra Leone
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Silesia
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Silk
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Silver
entry |1 pages
Sinkiang
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
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Smyrna (Izmir)
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Socialism
entry |1 pages
Solomon Islands
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Somaliland
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South Africa, Union of
entry |1 pages
Soviet-Polish Agreement
entry |1 pages
Soviet-Polish Pact
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Soviet Socialist Republics, Union of
entry |1 pages
Soya Beans
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Spa Conference, The
entry |1 pages
Spitsbergen
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Spanish Civil War, The
entry |1 pages
Steel
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Stettin
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Stresa Conference (I)
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Stresa Conference (II)
entry |1 pages
Sub-Carpathian Russia
entry |2 pages
Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian
entry |2 pages
Sudetenland
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Suez Canal, The
entry |2 pages
Sugar
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Sulphur
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Swaraj
entry |1 pages
Swaziland
entry |1 pages
Sweden
entry |2 pages
Sykes-Picot Treaty
entry |1 pages
Syndicalism
entry |6 pages
Syria
entry |2 pages
Tacna-Arica Question
entry |1 pages
Tanganyika
entry |4 pages
Tangier
entry |1 pages
Tehran Declaration, The
entry |2 pages
Teschen
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Thailand, otherwise Siam
entry |1 pages
Thrace
entry |1 pages
Three Power Pact, The
entry |1 pages
Tibet
entry |1 pages
Timor
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Tin
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Tin Ore
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Tobacco
entry |1 pages
Tonga Islands
entry |1 pages
Togoland
entry |1 pages
Totalitarianism
entry |2 pages
Transjordan
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Transylvania
entry |1 pages
Treaty Ports
entry |1 pages
Trianon, Treaty of
entry |2 pages
Trieste
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Tripartite Monetary Agreement
entry |1 pages
Tripartite Pact, The
entry |1 pages
Tripolitania
entry |1 pages
Trotskyism
entry |2 pages
Trusteeship Council
entry |2 pages
Tungsten
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Tunisia
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Turkey, The New
entry |2 pages
Twelve Points, President Truman's
entry |2 pages
Tyrol, The
entry |3 pages
Ukraine, The
entry |1 pages
Union with Britain Now
entry |2 pages
United Nations, The
entry |1 pages
United States of America and Treaty of Versailles
entry |1 pages
United States of Europe
entry |2 pages
U.N.R.R.A.
entry |1 pages
Uranium
entry |1 pages
U.S.S.R.
entry |2 pages
Ustaci, The
entry |1 pages
Val d'Aosta
entry |1 pages
Vanadium
entry |2 pages
Van Zeeland Report
entry |1 pages
Vatican City, The
entry |1 pages
Venezia Giulia
entry |4 pages
Versailles, Treaty of
entry |1 pages
Vienna Award
entry |2 pages
Viet-Minh
entry |1 pages
Vilna
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Vorarlberg
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Wafd, The
entry |1 pages
Walloons
entry |1 pages
War Debts
entry |1 pages
Washington Conference
entry |1 pages
Washington Convention
entry |1 pages
Washington Naval Treaty
entry |1 pages
Washington, Pact of
entry |1 pages
Wei-Hai-Wei
entry |1 pages
West Indies, American Naval Stations in
entry |2 pages
Westminster, Statute of
entry |1 pages
Wheat
entry |2 pages
Wheat Convention, The
entry |1 pages
White Army
entry |1 pages
White Plan
entry |1 pages
White Russia
entry |1 pages
Wood Pulp
entry |1 pages
Wool
entry |2 pages
Yalta Conference
entry |2 pages
Yemen, The
entry |1 pages
Young Plan, The
entry |4 pages
Yugoslavia
entry |1 pages
Zanzibar
entry |1 pages
Zinc
entry |1 pages
Zinc Ore
entry |1 pages
Zinovieff Letter, The
entry |3 pages
Zionism
entry |1 pages
Zollverein