The League of Nations a former international organization was formed after World War I to promote international peace and security The basis of the League was a written term of the Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties and provided for an assembly a council and a secretariat Because the peace treaties had created the League of Nations one of the League’s short-tem purposes was making sure surrendered and victorious countries stuck to the term of the treaties
However it became clear that some of the terms of the treaties were harsh and unjust and needed amending Woodrow Wilson hoped by including it in the treaties that this would ensure that the League was accepted by all nations however his own country swore off European Affairs The League of Nations and the treaties were far from perfect but one could not survive without the other The victorious countries could not agree amongst themselves as there was a power struggle and the defeated countries were not invited to join which only created more hostility in Europe
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All these reasons did not fear the likes of Hitler and Mussolini in fact they gained in confidence Therefore the failure of the League was really a vicious circle as the basic problems manifested into other problems due to the hostility in Europe following the war and encouraged the rise of powerful nationalist dictators and militaristic governments prepared to ignore the League and to use force The Leagues failure to deal with aggression led Hitler to believe he could get away with his plans for Germany
Its ending in 1946 was because it had some basic problems such as dealing with aggression involving major powers. Countries like Japan and Italy were able to just walk over the League of Nations because it had no armed forces of its own, which made it difficult to impose their decision on feuding countries (a rule of setting up The League Of Nations was that it did not have an armed force) This problem went hand in hand with the fact that the League was very slow at making decisions but when a crisis occurred the league was supposed to act fast with resolutenes