creation of the league
This leader created the idea for the League of Nations as part of the Treaty of Versailles.
Woodrow Wilson
The main goal of the League of Nations, as a global policing force, was to...
...stop another world war from ever happening again.
Telling a country that is doing or acting wrong, and that the country should stop.
Condemnation
The International Labor Organization was meant to...
Promote worker rights across the world
The different charitable groups within the League of Nations were called..
The Commissions
This is the year the League of Nations was created.
1919
The League of Nations hoped to use military force as a last resort to end conflict between countries, but they had one problem...
The League had no army, only volunteer soldiers.
To put down weapons or reduce the size of an army.
Disarmament
The international court system, meant to settle conflicts between countries before wars started. They had no army.
Permanent Court of Justice
The Assembly can only vote on these three subjects.
It could recommend action to the Council, vote on the budget, and agree to admit new members.
Three of the most powerful countries in the world, who did not join the League of Nations.
Germany, United States, and Russia (of the Soviet Union)
The three powers the League of Nations has to stop countries from going to war are...
Condemnation, Arbitration, Sanctions
A set of rules planning out how each of the members of the organization should behave. This puts all the rules in one book.
Covenant
The larger legislative branch, in which each member of the League could join and have one vote.
The Assembly
The permanent members of the Council, with the power to veto and overpower any other member of the League, were these four countries.
Britain, France, Italy, Japan
The number of original members the League of Nations had when it began.
42
Article 10 of the League Covenant establishes...
Collective security, in which members agreed that if one member were attacked all other members would come to their protection.
Punishment for a country, especially of the economic kind.
Sanctions
The civil service of the League, doing the practical work needed to make Council decisions a reality.
The Secretariat
The League of Nation's court system had a set number of permanent judges. They had this number of judges...
15
Instead of going to war, the League of Nations encourages countries to...
Negotiate (Talk) or Arbitrate (Go to International Court)
This French politician though that the League of Nations was a nice idea that would never work.
Georges Clemenceau
The United States refused to join the League of Nations, stating they only wanted to focus on their own affairs. This mentality is called...
Isolationism
The more exclusive legislative branch of the League, which made the major decisions in how the League would prevent war between countries. This branch included permanent members and non-permanent members.
The Council
Despite all, the League of Nations will be unable to stop much conflict or Hitler's rise in Europe during the 1930s. When will the League of Nations collapse under mismanagement and their own weight?
1939