The League of Nations
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- The League of Nations
- Established January 1920.
- Aims of the League were set out in a covenant.
- List of 26 articles, or laws that all members agreed to follow.
- These articles incouraged countries to...
- Work together.
- Ease international trade.
- Improve living and working conditions for the world's people.
- Disarm
- The most important article was no. 10
- It stated that members of the League would act together to ensure that any member threatened with war was protected by other members.
- List of 26 articles, or laws that all members agreed to follow.
- These articles incouraged countries to...
- Work together.
- Ease international trade.
- Improve living and working conditions for the world's people.
- Disarm
- The most important article was no. 10
- It stated that members of the League would act together to ensure that any member threatened with war was protected by other members.
- These articles incouraged countries to...
- These articles incouraged countries to...
- List of 26 articles, or laws that all members agreed to follow.
- Woodrow Wilson first came up with the idea in his Fourteen Points.
- Despite this, he was unable to persuade the US Congress to join.
- This weakened the League from the start.
- Despite this, he was unable to persuade the US Congress to join.
- Germany, who was blamed for the war, was refused membership.
- Made the League appear to be a club for the benefit of the victorious countries in WWI.
- The USSR was also banned from joining as the Allies did not approve of communist politics.
- Made the League appear to be a club for the benefit of the victorious countries in WWI.
- The USSR was also banned from joining as the Allies did not approve of communist politics.
- Initially 42 countries joined the League.
- Powers of the League
- Three ways that the League would settle disputes
- A hearing my an impartial, neutral country
- A ruling by the International Court of Justice.
- An inquiry by the Council of the League
- If these methods didn't solve the dispute the League would take the following course of action:
- Moral persuasion - put pressure on the country by lining up world opinion of the world against it.
- Economic sanctions: members of the Leage could refuse to trade with the offending country
- Military force - the armed fores of member countries could join together and used against the offending country.
- Three ways that the League would settle disputes
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