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League of Nations

noun

  1. 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

  1. an international association of states founded in 1920 with the aim of preserving world peace: dissolved in 1946
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League of Nations

  1. 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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Notes

Although President Woodrow Wilson of the United States was a principal founder of the League, the United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, and the United States never joined the League.
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This convinced President Woodrow Wilson that global communications should be placed under the control of his new proposed League of Nations.

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