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League of Nations
noun
- an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.
League of Nations
noun
- an international association of states founded in 1920 with the aim of preserving world peace: dissolved in 1946
League of Nations
- An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles . The League, the forerunner of the United Nations , brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like. It was too weak, however, to prevent the great powers from going to war in 1939.
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His vision of a new Europe included a League of Nations, in which “great and small states alike” would settle their differences peacefully instead of going to war.
The Balfour Declaration formed the basis of the British Mandate for Palestine, which was formally approved by the League of Nations in 1922.
The most famous and serious presidential disability crisis came when Woodrow Wilson collapsed during a cross-country train trip promoting his League of Nations in 1919.
That center was to be the League of Nations in Wilson’s day and the United Nations in ours.
The British and French consolidated their control with so-called "mandates" to govern handed to them by the newly founded League of Nations - a body which was dominated by the two imperial powers.
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