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League of Nations

The League of Nations c ame about after the end of WWI and was created to prevent the start of another war. Unfortunately another war did start​. Many looked to the League to settle the problems cause d by the Treaty of Versailles. The League was created in Switzerland because Switzerland did not fight in WWI and was a relatively neutral country. If disputes occurred the League could do three things which they called sanctions. They could call on disputing countries to sit down and talk it out. They could issue economic sanctions and if those failed they could enforce physical sanctions. the wording is bit choppy here

Many problems arose with the creation of the League. First, the United States of America did not join even though it was Woodrow Wilson's idea to make the League, Germany and Russia were not invited to join because Germany had started the war and western Europeans feared Russia's communist government. So right from the start the league lacked support from three of the strongest countries.

Great Britain, along with France , headed the League of N ations. Britain played a key role in every decision and failure that came from the league. Without the support of America the league was nearly ineffective and Britain knew this.

It seems that more people should have contributed to this including Japan and Italy. It gives a good background of the LoN, but should go into the actual actions taken by the league as nations became more aggressive.