The organisation of the League of Nationswas seen as a reason for its failure to maintain peace.How far was the organisation of the United Nations more likely to succeed in keeping world peace after 1945?

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Carol Goodman

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The organisation of the League of Nations was seen as a reason for its failure to maintain peace.

How far was the organisation of the United Nations more likely to succeed in keeping world peace after 1945?

The League of Nations existed from 1920 to 1946. Former President Woodrow Wilson wanted something that would involve everyone internationally to promote peace. His idea formed the basis of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which were the twenty-six articles that operated as the rules of the League. It consisted of an Assembly, a Council and a Secretariat. The Assembly only met once a year it was composed of three representatives for each member state and each state no matter how big it was had one vote. The Council met at least three times a year was made up of the four great powers which were Britain, France, Italy and Japan. There duty was to cope with emergencies and the decisions that they made were unanimous, they also dealt with the reduction of armaments and political disputes. The Secretariat was based upon a Secretary General and civil servants it was the administrative branch of the League of Nations. Their headquarters were based at Geneva in Switzerland. The International Court of justice consisted of fifteen judges from fifteen different places in the world. They were involved in legal disputes and their headquarters were at The Hague in the Netherlands.

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The United Nations under its charter was to “maintain international peace and security, by developing friendly relations among nations”. The first attempt to establish the United Nations was made in the Atlantic Charter in 1941 and signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The United Nations has a General Assembly which meets regularly in the year. The General Assembly also establishes agencies and programmes to carry out its recommendations. The Security Council is the part of the United Nations which maintains peace. It has fifteen members of which five are main members. These are Britain, France, America, China and ...

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