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The Japanese attack on Manchuria was the first major crisis to challenge the League of Nations, when one substantial power attacked another. China, as a League member, appealed to the League HQ for assistance.
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The peacemakers in 1919 were keen that all major states should belong to the League
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Sending an investigator had the advantage of playing for time. No League member was keen on action, especially in difficult economic circumstances
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Japan's economy was heavily dependent on exports. Manchuria offered new sources of raw materials and fresh markets for manufactured goods
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The Manchu dynasty, which itself came from Manchuria, had ruled China for centuries. A republic had been set up in 1911, but the Japanese managed to locate a surviving male member of the family
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The new state never obtained wide international recognition, being regarded as a Japanese colony won by brutal conquest
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Many quite minor states joined the League, maintaining that this principle, accepted by all members, was what attracted them about membership
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The original idea had been that all major states would join. However, democratic countries needed to refer the issue to their elected parliaments, and not all such assemblies were that keen on the pledges needed for League membership
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Beginning in the USA, these problems soon affected all industrial nations to a greater or lesser extent
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The League had a range of actions which it could take but chose none of them
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From the early 1920s China was in the throes of a civil war, complicated from 1931 by the Japanese attack on Manchuria
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