Crime of aggression

The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of several countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in the Second World War.

1998 international treaty establishing the International Criminal Court

military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense

set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime, created by the UN International Law Commission to codify the legal principles underlying the Nuremberg Trials

post–World War II war crimes trials

legal term used by the International Criminal Court (ICC)

policy that the United States of America will not recognize countries created by aggression

war crimes trial in China

1945-46 trial of Finnish leaders responsible for the Continuation War

United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted on 24 October 1970

United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in 1974

international tribunal for the crime of aggression in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine