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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 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 ...
A League of Nations mandate represented a legal status under international law for specific territories following World War I, involving the transfer of control from one nation to another. These mandates served as legal documents establishing the internationally agreed terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations .
Nation Name Term United States Raymond B. Fosdick: 1919 (provisional) Italy Bernardo Attolico: 1919–1920 Japan Nitobe Inazo: 1919–1926 Italy Dionisio Anzilotti: 1920–1921
The League of Nations. Oliver and Boyd. ISBN 978-0-05-002592-5. Henig, Ruth. The Peace that Never was: A History of the League of Nations (Haus Publishing, 2019), a standard scholarly history. Holmila, Antero, and Pasi Ihalainen. "Nationalism and internationalism reconciled: British concepts for a new world order during and after the World Wars."
The Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments of 1932–1934 (sometimes World Disarmament Conference or Geneva Disarmament Conference) was an effort by member states of the League of Nations, together with the U.S., to actualize the ideology of disarmament.
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 League of Nations archives is a historical collection of the United Nations Archives at Geneva. [4] It is arranged according to the administrative sections that existed during the time of the League of Nations, such as the Mandates Section, which focused on the administration of the territories under the mandates system as created by the Treaty of Versailles.