Politics

League of Nations

The international organization created by the Covenant in the Treaty of Versailles to prevent war through collective security and arbitration. Based in Geneva, it began work in 1920 without the United States, whose Senate had refused to ratify the treaty.

Mentioned in

• Chapter VII The Last Gamble §1 Wilson's Fourteen Points
• Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking Overview§2 Paris, 1919: The Peacemakers and the League
• Chapter XIII A World on Fire §2 Togoland, Kamerun and South West Africa§10 Legacies: Nationalism After the War