COLLECTIVE SECURITY VIA LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1919-1939

President Wilson wanted the League of Nations to be like a world parliament where representatives of all nations could meet together regularly to decide on matters which affected them all. In 1918 he quoted, ‘Merely to win a war was not enough. It must be won in such a way as to ensure the future peace of the world.’ By February he had drafted a very ambitious plan, which would contain all of the following; all major nations would join the League, they would disarm and if they had a dispute with another country, they would take it to the League. They promised to accept the decision made by the League and to protect one another if they were invaded. If any member did break the covenant and go to war, other members would stop trading with it and send troops if necessary to force it to stop fighting.

Most people in Europe were prepared to give Wilson’s plans a try. They hoped that no country would dare invade another if they knew the USA and other powerful natio

The next big failure of the League of Nations was over disarmament. In the 1930’s, there was increased pressure for the League to do something about disarmament. The Germans had long been angry about the fact that they had been forced to disarm after WWI while other nations had not done the same. In February 1932, in the wake of the Manchurian Crisis, the long-promised Disarmament Conference finally got underway. By July 1932, it had produced resolutions to prohibit bombing of civilian populations, limit the size of artillery, limit the tonnage of tanks and prohibit chemical warfare. But there was very little in the resolutions to show how these limits would be achieved.

ns of the world would stop trading with them or send armies to stop them. However, in America, the idea of a League was not very popular and Woodrow Wilson needed the approval of his Congress. The Republicans campaigned for America to be isolationist and it won. So, when the League opened for business in January 1920, the American chair was empty and it never joined. This was a huge blow to the League.

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