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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. United Kingdom and the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. New world order (politics) - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "new world order" as used to herald in the post-Cold War era had no developed or substantive definition. There appear to have been three distinct periods in which it was progressively redefined, first by the Soviets and later by the United States before the Malta Conference and again after George H. W. Bush's speech of September 11, 1990.

  6. List of leaders of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Organisation of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    League of Nations Organisation chart (in 1930). [1] The League of Nations was established with three main constitutional organs: the Assembly; the Council; the Permanent Secretariat. The two essential wings of the League were the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Labour Organization.

  8. League of Nations Union - Wikipedia

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    The LNU was formed on 13 October 1918 [2] by the merger of the League of Free Nations Association and the League of Nations Society, two older organisations already working for the establishment of a new and transparent system of international relations, human rights (as then understood) and for world peace through disarmament and universal collective security, rather than traditional ...

  9. Alfred Eckhard Zimmern - Wikipedia

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    Zimmern contributed to the founding of the League of Nations Society and of UNESCO. [29] [30] He was Deputy Director of the League's Institute for Intellectual Co-operation, in Paris, in the mid-1920s; [31] [30] [2] after tension with the Director, the French historian Julien Luchaire, both left. [32]