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  2. League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The League of Nations (LN or LoN; French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃], SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. [1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

  3. Member states of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The Covenant of the League of Nations was part of the Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 between the Allies of World War I and Germany. In order for the treaty to enter into force, it had to be deposited at Paris; in order to be deposited, it had to be ratified by Germany and any three of the five Principal Powers (the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and ...

  4. League of Nations mandate - Wikipedia

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    The mandate system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by the victors of World War I. The article referred to territories which after the war were no longer ruled by their previous sovereign, but their peoples were not considered "able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world".

  5. Proposals for the United States to withdraw from the United ...

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    Opposition to the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations, has existed from the time of its formation. At the end of World War I , isolationists in the United States were successful in blocking the U.S. Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles negotiated by President Woodrow Wilson and by extension U.S. participation in ...

  6. United States and the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The American absence in the League of Nations did not prevent the nation from becoming an official member of the United Nations, formed at the conclusion of the Second World War. The United States was one of five permanent members of the Security Council, with the other four countries the USSR , France , Nationalist China, and Britain. [ 15 ]

  7. Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations

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    Arthur Salter was the head of the EFO during its heyday from 1922 to 1931. In 1919, a prefiguration team of the League, located at 117 Piccadilly in London, had started to collect and publish economic statistics, [1]: 27 which remained the initial focus of the Economic and Financial Section that was soon established within the League Secretariat, [2]: 470 and spent much of 1920 preparing the ...

  8. Permanent Court of International Justice - Wikipedia

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    An international court had long been proposed; Pierre Dubois suggested it in 1305 and Émeric Crucé in 1623. [2] An idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the ...

  9. 1933 German League of Nations withdrawal referendum

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    Lacking the two-thirds supermajority necessary to pass such an act, Hindenburg dissolved the Reichstag on 31 January. [7] In the resulting election , the Nazis won 43.9% of the vote. [ 8 ] Including his allies, Hitler enjoyed the support of 60% of the deputies, [ 9 ] but needed the support of the Catholic Centre Party to reach the required ...