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The League Of Nations During World War I

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Q6. The League of Nations was officially created during the aftermath of World War I at the Versailles Peace Conference. The League of Nations was an idea brought forth by the President of the United States of America, during this time, in office was Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson came up with his astonishing idea of the fourteen key points that would in essence bring the world to world peace, where everybody would love, respect, and treat everybody equally. One of his fourteen key points was his idea called the League of Nations, out of all of his fourteen key points, he was extremely fond of this one. Woodrow Wilson would fight especially hard for his League of Nations at the Versailles Peace Conference after the fallout of World War I. …show more content…

The bigger names and powers at the time that were apart of the League of Nations consisted of the majority of the big four from the Versailles Peace Conference; for example, Great Britain, France, and Italy. Notice, there was one key power missing from the League of Nations, that of course being the United States of America, the very people who had introduced and all but forced the European nations into using Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. The League of Nations had honestly been long gone from the beginning, it was over before it had ever even started. One reason being, many of the European nations were opposed to Wilson’s idea at first. If anything, the League of Nations was the last thing on the list of things they cared about, it was not very important to any of the European countries, they would be just fine without it. Secondly, Woodrow Wilson and the United States of America denied wanting any part in the League of Nations. The final reason why it had been doomed from the start and continued to weaken was because the League of Nations had no armed forces. In other words, without armed forces, the League of Nations was defenseless and appeared very

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