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Jaehyouk · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 22

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Jaehyouk · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 22

League of Nation came out after the WWI to provent conflict between the countries. Although, League aimed for the world peace, it failed provent WWII. The idea of the league was first suggested by Woodrow Wilson, but ironically America wasn't part of the league because congress thought league was against Monroe Doctrine. The reason they fail to provent WWII is because many of country withdraw from the league (Like Japanese Emprire, Germany, and Italia).

p.s League was the basis of the United Nation

mswartz · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 43

There are two topics created for this assignment...so I guess i'll just post here. The League of Nations came our of the war primarily to prevent another war from happening. The members of the League of Nations pledged to " seek peaceful resolutions to disputes and to assist each other in the case of aggression." Before the war, countries felt a new sense of strength and power because empires were not only forming but spreading out. There was a strong sense of national pride, aggressiveness, and disrespect for other nationalities. This among many other things eventually led to the war. The creation of the League of Nations attempted to fix the international disputes before they evolved into a war.

The League of Nations faced problems and arguments against the formation of the league. For example, "They argued that it would compromise the sovereignty of the United States and entangle U.S soldiers in the conflicts of far away places." In my point of view, the formation of the league was trying to prevent another war by keeping the peace. This shows the world is changing and attempting to create peace, but yet it is very difficult and a complex matter.

Maddy.King · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 23

The League of Nations was created in hopes of preventing another war and making sure everyone followed the Treaty of Verailles. The League of Nations was also the hope for many people who had lost a lot during World War I.
The League addressed new challenges, such as "territorial integrity of the borders drawn at Versailles". The League of Nations put themselves in charge of maintaining the peace between bordering countries through "economic sanctions". Wilson fully supported the League of Nations in addresses this problem in the way they did, he referred to it as, "moral and responsible".
For a League to be created just to ensure that countries uphold a treaty says that many countries are unhappy with each other. A few reasons could be because a war just happened and there is unsettled business between countries, or there is competition between growing empires. Competition could be in the military, technology, and even economic advancements.

edalven · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 37

Guess we have two threads today, I'm posting this again just in case. That was a lot of reading, Phew. Let me preface this by saying "I THINK..." The following is rather biased.

I think the League of Nations was a necessary end result of the Great War. Although unsuccessful, it was an attempt at a lasting peace. Woodrow Wilson fought a long and hard battle to get support for his 14 Points, and after much compromise, the League of Nations emerged as a force for peace. I think its motivations were well-founded and righteous, but some decisions of the Treaty of Versailles had ramifications on a unimaginable scale. For example, the policies that required Germany to pay for reparations, while it was already in a deep depression may have seemed fitting, but they just made the population even more resentful of the Allies. This set the stage for Hitler's rise to fame, and ultimately World War II. Also, the Allies' exclusion of Russia from its decision-making may have influenced its distrust of the West, and fueled the conflicts that would emerge in the Cold War. Russia was going through political turmoil at this time, and after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, America and its allies made little effort to befriend The USSR. (As of 1922) [In fact, it took Hitler's backstabbing of Stalin in 1942 to form the Big Three Alliance and restart talks between the US and Russia.] In conclusion, I believe that those in power mishandled the aftermath of World War I, and set a time bomb that would result in World War II and other conflicts.

sarahislahf · Joined: 11 May 2010 Posts: 21

The League of Nations was a response to the war, as proposed by President Wilson in his 14 Points. More specifically were their dealings with Germany, wherein they imposed many harsh terms & reparations for starting the war.

After looking at their actions, it becomes clear that after WW1 much of Europe was left in economic and political shambles, which history tells us invited in the totalitarian rule that would lead to WW11.

sarahislahf · Joined: 11 May 2010 Posts: 21

Adding to my previous post (I hit post too early! Neutral

) I think it becomes clear that though well-intentioned, the League of Nations failed in their primary goal with horrific consequences.

georgia.indigo · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 15

Because WWI was so brutal, and the world wide toll it took on lives and that the countries involved seemed deadlocked into fighting each other, it seemed necessary to form an organization to help regulate peace. The League of Nations was created to negotiate internationally.

The world was changing mostly because it was easier to communicate and move around. Cultures were becoming less and less isolated and the distances it took to transport goods, services and, predominantly, information was getting to be less of an issue. It seems as through the world is starting to become a smaller and smaller place. There was a growth of wealth, and therefore power. As well as a growth of mobilization and urbanization which created racial and social differences in places where different cultures now had to 'co-exist'.

shawks · Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 12

The League of Nations helped the countries during World War 1 because this group forced them to make peace. It was tempting for the countries to excessively use their weapons beause people thought that this fighting was going to a good cause, but it merely just caused competing countries to fight over power. Just one assassination can cause a big and bloody war. Even Woodrow Wilson who wanted to make peace eventually decided it was necessary for Americans to fight in Europe so Europeans would calm down.
This League of Nations was hard because everyone ended up ganging up against Germany after the war. Other countries blamed it for starting the war. Germany had to pay billions of dollars for the wars' damages and remove its weapons. This caused it to not be on friendly terms with countries like America.

malexander · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 20

The League of Nations came out of WWI because Wilson felt it was necessary to try and maintain peace among the different nations after the end of the war in 1919. Also to communicate among all these nations and try and resolve the horrible state the world was left in after the war.
It tried to address the disasters after the war had ended, and made Germany take blame for starting the war, and also pay large sums of money for damage. Wilson also tried to use this league as a guideline for future nations to prevent war. That, of course, failed.
The world seemed to be changing in many ways, mostly the ones that also happened in the progressive era: Urbanization, immigration and government reform. Even though the number of immigrants coming into America had dropped during the war, there were still large communities based around people's nationalities and religions. There were also woman coming into the workforce stronger than ever before to take the place of them men who were fighting the war. In the South, many African- Americans migrated to the north in the "Great Migration," and caused racial unrest between cotton farmers and workers. This led to huge riots.

dokim · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 23

Wilson tried to keep peace after WW1. He didn't want the other war happened again because there's huge damages after war such as economy, reparation, jobless people, dead people, and etc. Therefore, he made the league of nation in order to prevent the war. Willson desired to make league of nation for safety and peace. Also, the league of nation is not only prevent the war or assist the other countries, but also i can say that it controls the other nation by caring other countries too much. The league of nation can limit the other countries' freedom. However, the league of nation was not that effective becasue there's some diagreement. The premier Georges Clemenceau said that 'I like the league, but i do not believe in it.' Through this quote, we can say that some people disbelieved about the league of nation a lot.

hkwon · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 24

Based on Wilson’s 14 points, the League of Nations was organized in order to promise permanent peace as well as to promote the international cooperation in terms of economy. Before and after, this association had showed instability with a lot of problems. In the process of compromise, ‘peace without victory’ as Wilson’s slogan couldn’t satisfy any of countries that participated in Wars with risks. And the League of Nations led by winning countries in WW1 unilaterally was costing a lot of money for breaking the war. Since Germany and Russia were excluded from discussions that United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy had, their opinions never reflected. Also, it didn’t recognize the potential danger by Lenin’s new Russian Bolshevik government. After WW1 and establishment of the League of Nations, the flow of power of countries changed to the ally consists of Great Britain, France, and Italy. These problems cause WW2 later.

lstrickman · Joined: 06 May 2010 Posts: 20

I pretty much agree with what other people have been saying-- I think that the league of nations did succeed at what it was trying to do, in that it ended WWI. It did not, however, deal with the sentiments that caused the war, which left room for a lot more problems. This allowed these conflicts to expand to the point where there was another world war. The idea of "peace without victory" that wilson was pushing did not do anything to solve the problems in europe. it basically would have left them back where they started. While the league of nations did not succeed at its initial goal of preventing all wars in the future, it dealt pretty well with the issues that the war caused.

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