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signed a lot of disarmament and non-aggression pacts, like 1928’s Kellogg-Briand Pact, pledging not to go to war with any of the other people who signed it. The other signers included Germany, Poland, Africa, Japan, Britain, and France, and later expanded to include Serbia, China, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, so you can see how well that pact turned out. In the 1930s, it became clear that
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Bill O'Neill (The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War)