The League Of Nations
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- The League Of Nations
- Aims
- its aims were to stop wars
- to encourage disarmament
- make the world a better place by improving people's working conditions
- iI would also try and tackle disease
- Organisation
- Its organisation comprised an assembly, which met once a year
- a council, which met more regularly to consider crises
- a small secretariat to handle the paperwork
- a number of committees such as the International Labour Organisation and the Health Committee to carry out its humanitarian work.
- Strengths
- Its main strengths was that it had set up by the Treaty of Versailles, which every nation had signed, and it had 58 nations as members by the 1930s
- To enforce its will, it could offer arbitration through the Court of International Justice
- apply trade sanctions against countries that went to war
- Weaknesses
- Its main weaknesses were the fact that it was set up by the Treaty of Versailles (which every nation hated)
- that its aims were too ambitious
- that Germany, Russia and the USA were not members
- that it had no army
- that its organisation was cumbersome; and that decisions had to be unanimous
- The Covenant of the League of Nations was built into the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War
- The League was Wilson's dream for a new world order
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