What makes up the League of Nations? Why was it created? What is the debate over the League of Nations? What was the purpose? The most thorough and informative answer gets ten points!!!
2007-03-21 16:15:37 · 3 answers · asked by Doug F 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, keep to economic sanctions which the League ordered, or provide an Army, when needed, for the League to use. However, they were often very reluctant to do so. Mussolini stated that “The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.”
After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of the Second World War suggested that the League had failed in its primary purpose — to avoid any future world war. The United Nations Organization replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
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2007-03-23 12:13:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, keep to economic sanctions which the League ordered, or provide an Army, when needed, for the League to use. However, they were often very reluctant to do so. Mussolini stated that “The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.”
After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of the Second World War suggested that the League had failed in its primary purpose — to avoid any future world war. The United Nations Organization replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
2007-03-21 22:46:41 · answer #2 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The League of Nations was Woodrow Wilsons Idea for an international body to respond to any threat by another or outsider nation, it was the precursor to the U.N., However it had little or no power and due to isolationism the us congress wouldn't accept it so the us didn't join we only observed the meetings. The failure of nations to respond and get along , and the lack of power to do much led to its decline. the link below gives much more info.
2007-03-21 19:34:47 · answer #3 · answered by pdale33 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋