How successful was the League of Nations in the 1920s

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How Successful was the League of Nations in the 1920s

When it was set up the LN had four main objectives, these were : to discourage aggression from any nation, to encourage countries to co-operate, especially in business and trade, to encourage nations to disarm and to improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world. I will show how successful the LN was in each of its objectives.

To improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world was one of the objectives of the LN. I believe the LN was quite successful in doing this.

The LN did amazing work in getting war refugees back to their homeland. In the first few years after the war the League helped 400,000 people return to their homes.

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 The International Labour Organisation was an organisation that set out to help the working conditions in the world. They managed to limit the amount of hours small children were allowed to work. It implemented a resolution so that people only work a maximum of 48 hours a week and an eight hour day.

 The Health Committee worked hard to tackle leprosy. It started a campaign to exterminate mosquitoes, which reduced the amount of cases of malaria and yellow fever, both caused by mosquitoes.

 The LN brought about international highway codes. The LN tackled hard to defeat drug usage in many ...

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