In January 1918, nine months after the USA had entered the First World War, its president, Woodrow Wilson, made it clear, in his ‘Fourteen Points’, that he wanted a new order to world politics, the abandonment of the balance-of-power system...

The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through...

This Saturday, 20 November, and next, Twickenham's presumptuous clan gathers its travel-rugs round its knees and bays for colonials' blood. Likewise, the hipflasks will warm cockles and loosen throats to raise the rafters for the boys in green, blue and red to strut the...

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The Arab League on Wednesday picked Egypt and Jordan to take the lead in approaching Israel to promote the Saudi-drafted peace plan in a bid to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Israel has praised the broad land-for peace offer but has said it will not accept the...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain envisions a "League of Democracies" as part of a more cooperative foreign policy with U.S. allies.The Arizona senator will call for such an organization to be "the core of an international order of peace based on freedom" in a speech...

Essay consists of a discussion regarding the failure of the League of Nations in the 1920's.

Essay analyzes if the failure of the League of Nations was the most important cause of the Second World War.

The League of Nations did some humanitarian good during the inter-war period, but its failures in Manchuria, Ethiopia and the fact that it did nothing to stop the rise of Hitler all resulted in the ultimate failure of the League and its idea of collective security.