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{{Short description|Military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense}}
{{About|the type of military conflict|the metal album|War of Aggression (album)}}
[[File:German soldiers remove the Polish border crossing in Sopot during the first stages of the Invasion of Poland (48661789227).png|thumb|265x265px|Colored Image of [[Free City of Danzig Police|Danzig Police]]
A '''war of aggression''', sometimes also '''war of [[conquest]]'''<!-- redirected here--->, is a [[military conflict]] waged without the justification of [[self-defense]], usually for territorial gain and subjugation, in contrast with the concept of a [[just war theory|just war]].
Wars without [[legality#International law|international legality]] (i.e. not out of self-defense nor sanctioned by the [[United Nations Security Council]]) can be considered wars of aggression; however, this alone usually does not constitute the definition of a war of aggression<!-- IMHO, the next phrase cancels this by justifying the modern viewpoint: {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}
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{{blockquote|Originally President Wilson resisted the effort to brand Germany with war guilt, but French and British leaders forced him to compromise. Naming Germany an 'aggressor' introduced the concept into positive international law.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter H. Maguire|title=Law and War: International Law and American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0qM8eRj3SCMC&pg=PT89|date=2013|edition=2nd|publisher=Columbia UP|page=89|isbn=9780231518192}}</ref>}}
[[File:Mussolini and Hitler 1940 (retouched).jpg|thumb|upright|Italian fascist leader [[Benito Mussolini]] and Nazi Germany's leader [[Adolf Hitler]] in 1940]]
The [[Japanese invasion of Manchuria]] had a significant negative effect on the moral strength and influence of the [[League of Nations]]. As critics had predicted, the League was powerless if a strong nation decided to pursue an aggressive policy against other countries, allowing a country such as Japan to commit blatant aggression without serious consequences. [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] were also aware of this, and ultimately both followed Japan's example in aggression against their neighbors: in the case of Italy, [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|against Ethiopia]] (
In November 1935, the League of Nations condemned
===The Convention for the Definition of Aggression===
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*[[Nuremberg principles]]
*[[Preventive war]]
*[[Six-day war]]
*[[Voluntary war]]
*[[War crime]]
*[[War of liberation]]
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