League of Nations

Aims
1. Stop wars
2. Encourage disarmament
3. Improve living conditions
4. Enforce the T of V
Organisation
1. Assembly
  1. All members meet
    1. Met 1x a year
2. Council
  1. Met in times of crisis
    1. 4x a year
3. Secretariat
  1. Handle the paperwork
4. Court of International Justice
5. Humanitarian committees
  1. International Labour Organisation
  2. Health Committee
Strengths
1. Set up by the T of V - every nation signed
2. Arbitration through the Court of International Justice
3. Apply trade sanctions against countries
4. Moral condemnation
Weaknesses
1. Set up by the T of V - every nation hated
2. Organisation - no-one could agree
3. Decisions had to be unanimous
4. Germany, Russia and the USA were not members!
5. Did not have an army
'The Covenant of the League of Nations'
1. Set up by the first 26 clauses of the Treaty of Versailles
2. Over-ambitious?
  1. The League shall... 'safeguard the peace of nations.'
  2. PROMISED to improve conditions for workers, stop drug trafficking, help trade and control disease.

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