The United States and the League of Nations

The United States and the League of Nations

Below is an excerpt from an Encylopedia entry on the League of Nations.  While reading, identify:

1.  What was the problem?

2.  Who was involved in the proposed soultion?

The League of Nations was a post-World War I organization  formed to prevent international conflicts. At the end of World War I, the idea surfaced  among world leaders that such an organization was needed to prevent international conflicts.

At the Paris Peace Conference in January 18, 1919, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson chaired the committee with the responsibility of drawing up acovenant for such an organization. In a speech, Wilson framed his Fourteen Points for a new world order that resulted in the League of Nations. The covenant, ratified  as part of the Versailles Peace Treaty, instituted the league on January 10, 1920, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The league began with forty-two members; at its peak in 1934, it had fifty-eight member states participating.

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