The League Of Nations: The Role Of The League Of Nations

Many of you might have heard of international organizations on the news. However, have you ever heard of an international organization that deceased in about 20 year? The organization that you might have never heard of before taking World History is the League of Nations. The League of Nations is the first permanent international security organization, which was formed in the reaction of WWI and the Paris Peace Conference and was established under Part 1 of Treaty of Versailles on 10 January 1920. The headquarters of League of Nation was located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was chosen to be in Switzerland because during the WWI, Switzerland was the country where it stayed neutral and did not fight in the WWI. Other countries did not go against

This person was the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, who proposed the idea of the League of Nations as part of his Fourteen Points plan for a fair peace in Europe. * According to Kutler, the fundamental belief of this organization was, as stated on their Covenant, to prevent wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes, arms trade, global health, and protection of minorities in Europe. It was created as an international body whose sole purpose was to maintain world peace and which would sort out international disputes in order to prevent future conflicts that might lead into other drastic wars like the WWI. However, we could clearly see that the League of Nations has failed to meet its purpose because at 1939 WWII has

According to Paupp, due to the isolationist policy of America, they did not participate in the League of Nations. Also, the second most potentially powerful nation, Russia was also not allowed to join the League of Nations because at 1917 Russia became a communist government, and this generated fear in the European and Western countries. Therefore the two most potentially powerful countries during the time did not participate and give support to the League of Nations, which made the power of the League of Nations weak. Germany, not the strongest country during the time due to the debt they had after WW1, was not included and provides the reason of Germany’s attack. Although there were Britain and France, the most powerful of nations during the time, was involved in the League of Nation their powers were not as strong as it was in the past. According to Wronka both nations were weak and have suffered financially and military during the WWI so they did not have enough power to support the League of Nations. Also according to Pollock, neither of the nations was enthusiastic to get involved in disputes that did not affect Europe; therefore they did not have any means to enforce their decisions. Due to their lack of ability to support the League of Nation economically, militarily, and politically, according to Pollock, the League did not have a