League of Nations
(noun)
An international
diplomatic organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which
ended World War I. Proposed by Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament,
preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries
through negotiation, and improving global quality of life. Ironically, the
United States never joined the league created by its president.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. Despite Wilson's key role in its creation, the United States never joined this organization.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life.
(proper noun)
An international
organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the
First World War. Proposed by Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament,
preventing war through collective security, settling international disputes through
negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never
joined because Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. Proposed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never joined it.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never joined the organization.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never joined the League.
Examples of League of Nations in the following topics:
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- The League of Nations was created as an international organization after WWI.
- The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Talks that ended the First World War.
- The United Nations (UN) replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
- The countries on the map represent those that have been involved with the League of Nations.
- Explain the historical rise and fall of the League of Nations after World War I
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- The Paris Peace Conference approved the proposal to create the League of
Nations in January 1919, and the league was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles.
- Harding, continued American opposition to the
League of Nations.
- The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the
groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after
World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by
the league.
- Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 1919.
- Identify the creation, goals, and limitations of the League of Nations.
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- Despite Wilson's efforts, the Treaty of Versailles (and membership in the League of Nations) was never ratified by Congress.
- They wanted a treaty with reservations, especially on Article X, which involved the power of the League of Nations to make war without a vote by the U.S.
- All of the Irreconcilables were bitter enemies of President Wilson, and he launched a nationwide speaking tour in the summer of 1919 to refute them.
- A poll of historians in 2006 cited Wilson's failure to compromise with the Republicans on U.S. entry into the League as one of the 10 largest errors on the part of an American president.
- Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations, Congress passed the Knox–Porter Resolution, bringing a formal end to hostilities between the U.S. and the Central Powers.
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- Additionally, all the major powers, except the U.S., committed to disarmament in both the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations.
- The treaties were also registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on the same day.
- Article 8 of the Covenant of the League of Nations gave the League the task of reducing "armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations."
- The talks broke down and Hitler withdrew Germany from both the Conference and the League of Nations in October 1933.
- The League of Nations turned out to be ineffective in its efforts to act as an international peace-keeping organization.
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- For the first 200 years of United States history, the national policy was isolationism and non-interventionism.
- Congress refused to endorse the Treaty of Versailles or the League of Nations.
- First, the United States Congress rejected president Woodrow Wilson's most cherished condition of the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations.
- Even though "anti-League" was the policy of the nation, private citizens and lower diplomats either supported or observed the League of Nations.
- Although the United States was unwilling to commit to the League of Nations, they were willing to engage in foreign affairs on their own terms.
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- The first professional league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, lasted from 1871 to 1875; scholars dispute its status as a major league.
- The more formally structured National League was founded in 1876.
- The pact formalized relations both between the two major leagues and between them and the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, representing most of the country's minor professional leagues.
- The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.
- The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
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- The National League was founded in 1876.
- The pact formalized relations both between the two major leagues and between them and the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, representing most of the country's minor professional leagues.
- The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.
- The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
- In 1905, the Giants were National League champions again and team management relented, leading to the establishment of the World Series as the major leagues' annual championship event.
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- The Sporting News, which had opposed blacks in the major leagues, gave Robinson its first Rookie of the Year Award in 1947.
- He also won the National League Most Valuable Player award in 1949, when he led the league with a .342 batting average and 37 stolen bases.
- Jackie Robinson's story quickly captured the nation's imagination, and it was retold through American popular culture in many different forms .
- Although some major league teams began to integrate right away, it was12 years until the last major league team integrated in 1959.
- The Kansas City Royals of the time were the barnstorming team of the Kansas City Monarchs Negro League club.
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- In chapter one, Mahan argued that modern industrial nations must secure foreign markets for the purpose of exchanging goods and, consequently, they must maintain a maritime force that is capable of protecting these trade routes.
- The League also argued that the Spanish-American War was a war of imperialism camouflaged as a war of liberation.
- This effort led to the formation of the National Party, which nominated Senator Donelson Caffery of Louisiana.
- By 1920, the League was only a shadow of its former strength.
- The Anti-Imperialist League disbanded in 1921.