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The League of Nations


The League of Nations, 1920 - Office of the Historian

The United States never joined the League. Most historians hold that the League operated much less effectively without U.S. participation than it would have ...

League of Nations - Wikipedia

The first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

The League of Nations - The United Nations Office at Geneva

The creation of the League of Nations marked a new era of multilateral cooperation. The Covenant bound its Member States to try to settle their disputes ...

League of Nations | History, Definition & Purpose | Britannica

League of Nations, organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers after World War I. Although the ...

The League of Nations: Definition, WW1 & Failure ‑ HISTORY

The League of Nations, a global diplomatic group developed after World War I to solve disputes before they erupted into open warfare, ...

The League of Nations (article) | Khan Academy

The League of Nations was seen as the epitome of a new world order based on mutual cooperation and the peaceful resolution of international conflicts.

'The League is Dead. Long Live the United Nations.' | New Orleans

On April 19, 1946, the League of Nations dissolved, ending 26 years of the existence of an organization which had proven incapable of ...

The League of Nations, 1920 - state.gov

Motivated by Republican concerns that the League would commit the United States to an expensive organization that would reduce the United States' ability to ...

The Covenant of the League of Nations

Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League, and ...

Predecessor: The League of Nations

The predecessor of the United Nations was the League of Nations, established in 1919, after World War I, under the Treaty of Versailles.

Introduction - League of Nations: Topics in Chronicling America

This guide provides access to materials related to the League of Nations in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.

The League of Nations | History of Western Civilization II

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded on January 10, 1920, as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World ...

The League of Nations | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

Lodge and Wilson were bitter political foes, but they also had legitimate differences of views on the League and on the covenant's Tenth Article. Lodge believed ...

The League of Nations - | NZ History

The aims of the organisation included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation and ...

Overview of the Secretariat - League of Nations Secretariat

The League Secretariat was, until 1940, divided into several functional sections, with specific policy areas and often servicing commissions and committees.

League of Nations summary | Britannica

League of Nations, Organization for international cooperation established by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I.

Avalon Project - The Covenant of the League of Nations

The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations.

League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents: A ...

Northwestern University Library's digital collection League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents contains the full text of 260 ...

League of Nations - President Wilson House

Wilson drew up terms of peace including his design for a League of Nations, a world body to settle future conflicts among nations.

The League of Nations: Decline and Fall (From the UN Archives 1970)

This film is the history of the League of Nations from 1930 to the onset of the Second world War: that 10-year span ending when Geneva, ...