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The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting the war and imposed harsh penalties in terms of loss of territory, massive reparations payments, and demilitarization.
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The League of Nations was an international diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare
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Includes many historical events
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The 1922 Chanak Affair was Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King’s first major foreign policy test. Turkish forces were threatening British troops stationed in Turkey after the First World War. King declined to automatically provide Canada’s military support to Britain.
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Canada and the United States came to an agreement regarding the halibut fishing season in the North Pacific Ocean.
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When a new peace treaty, the Treaty of Lausanne, was negotiated with Turkey in 1923, the Dominion governments did not participate
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Julian Byng was Canada’s Governor-General (he was the “middle man” between the Canadian and British governments). Byng refused to dissolve Canada’s Parliament and call an election when requested by King.
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At the 1926 Imperial conference, King argued that British Dominions should have the power to make their own decisions about foreign policy.
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December 11th, 1931 – The British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster