"The League of Nations was doomed to fail from its creation" Discuss.

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"The League Of Nations was doomed to failure from its creation"

The League of Nations was a product of the Paris peace conference held at the end of World War 2 after the Allies victory. The leaders of Britain, France and America (known as 'The Big Three'(David Lloyd George, George Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson)) gathered to outline sanctions that would be placed on countries that were involved with the defeated Central Powers. All the leaders went into the conference wanting different things, France wanted to get revenge on Germany because their country was in tatters, Britain and America however wanted to wanted to only lightly punish Germany because they were scared off starting another war.

At the start of peace conference Wilson made it clear that he didn’t really care what other decisions were made as long as his way in creating the League of Nations. While the peace conference was in motion Wilson took himself off to a quiet room and began to write the terms of The League. He wrote that the main aims of The League would be to keep the peace by dealing with disputes between nations, to safeguard the independence of Countries and their frontiers, to encourage countries to reduce armaments and to improve working and living conditions for all. Also it clearly outlined the steps to deal with an aggressor country, these were to firstly to tell the country to stop and condemn it, then stop any trading with that county if they still failed to stop and they continued with their actions, to use the military force of their member countries. However, the league could not be effective if the great powers didn't back the leagues actions.

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The Treaty also outlined that Germany would not be permitted to join the league until they could prove that weren’t an aggressive nation and that they posed no threat to any other countries. The League was dealt its first major blow when the treaties were revealed to the world, Woodrow Wilson had been voted out of power in America to make way for new president Warren G. Harding. Harding decided that America would go into isolation and focus on their own problems that had arisen in the USA thus they would not be joining The League. This left Britain ...

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