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A map of the world in 1920–45, which shows the League of Nations members during its history. The League consisted of 42 founding members in November 1920. Six other states joined in its founding year (by December 1920), and seven more joined by September 1924, bringing the League's size to 55.
The Peace that Never was: A History of the League of Nations (Haus Publishing, 2019), a standard scholarly history. Housden, Martyn. The League of Nations and the organisation of peace (2012) online; Ikonomou, Haakon, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, eds. The League of Nations: Perspectives from the Present (Aarhus University Press, 2019). online review
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 ...
The United Kingdom and the League of Nations played central roles in the diplomatic history of the interwar period 1920-1939 and the search for peace. British activists and political leaders helped plan and found the League of Nations, provided much of the staff leadership, and Britain (alongside France) played a central role in most of the critical issues facing the League.
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 ...
The membership of the United States and the USSR in the United Nations is a key difference between the post-World War II international organization and the League of Nations. According to Henig, the official involvement of the United States "gave the United Nations a global reach which the League lacked, symbolised by the fact that its ...
The Parade of Nations and the larger opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics will air on NBC beginning at noon ET. It will re-air in primetime beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.
A conference room in the Palace of Nations. The Palace of Nations (French: Palais des Nations, pronounced [palɛ de nɑsjɔ̃]) is the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was built between 1929 and 1938 [1] to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations.