League of Nations
(noun)
An international
diplomatic organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which
ended World War I. Proposed by Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament,
preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries
through negotiation, and improving global quality of life. Ironically, the
United States never joined the league created by its president.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. Despite Wilson's key role in its creation, the United States never joined this organization.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life.
(proper noun)
An international
organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the
First World War. Proposed by Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament,
preventing war through collective security, settling international disputes through
negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never
joined because Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. Proposed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never joined it.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never joined the organization.
(proper noun)
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the first World War. Proposed by Wilson, its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy, and improving global quality of life. The U.S. never joined the League.
Examples of League of Nations in the following topics:
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- The Paris Peace Conference approved the proposal to create the League of
Nations in January 1919, and the league was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles.
- Harding, continued American opposition to the
League of Nations.
- The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the
groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after
World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by
the league.
- Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 1919.
- Identify the creation, goals, and limitations of the League of Nations.
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- Despite Wilson's efforts, the Treaty of Versailles (and membership in the League of Nations) was never ratified by Congress.
- They wanted a treaty with reservations, especially on Article X, which involved the power of the League of Nations to make war without a vote by the U.S.
- All of the Irreconcilables were bitter enemies of President Wilson, and he launched a nationwide speaking tour in the summer of 1919 to refute them.
- A poll of historians in 2006 cited Wilson's failure to compromise with the Republicans on U.S. entry into the League as one of the 10 largest errors on the part of an American president.
- Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations, Congress passed the Knox–Porter Resolution, bringing a formal end to hostilities between the U.S. and the Central Powers.
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- Coolidge saw the landslide Republican victory in the presidential
election of 1920 as a rejection of the Democratic Wilsonian push for the United
States to join the League of Nations.
- While the League of Nations accepted the reservations,
it suggested some modifications upon which the Senate failed to act and the U.S.
ultimately never joined the World Court.
- This map indicates the nations that were party to the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928 and their degree of involvement in the treaty.
- Dark Green = original signatories; Green = subsequent adherents; Light Blue = territories of parties; Dark Blue = League of Nations mandates administered by parties.
- President Calvin Coolidge did not advocate U.S. membership in the League of Nations.
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- Additionally, all the major powers, except the U.S., committed to disarmament in both the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations.
- The treaties were also registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on the same day.
- Article 8 of the Covenant of the League of Nations gave the League the task of reducing "armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations."
- The talks broke down and Hitler withdrew Germany from both the Conference and the League of Nations in October 1933.
- The League of Nations turned out to be ineffective in its efforts to act as an international peace-keeping organization.
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- The first professional league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, lasted from 1871 to 1875; scholars dispute its status as a major league.
- The more formally structured National League was founded in 1876.
- The pact formalized relations both between the two major leagues and between them and the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, representing most of the country's minor professional leagues.
- The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.
- The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
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- The National League was founded in 1876.
- The pact formalized relations both between the two major leagues and between them and the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, representing most of the country's minor professional leagues.
- The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.
- The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
- In 1905, the Giants were National League champions again and team management relented, leading to the establishment of the World Series as the major leagues' annual championship event.
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- The Sporting News, which had opposed blacks in the major leagues, gave Robinson its first Rookie of the Year Award in 1947.
- He also won the National League Most Valuable Player award in 1949, when he led the league with a .342 batting average and 37 stolen bases.
- Jackie Robinson's story quickly captured the nation's imagination, and it was retold through American popular culture in many different forms .
- Although some major league teams began to integrate right away, it was12 years until the last major league team integrated in 1959.
- The Kansas City Royals of the time were the barnstorming team of the Kansas City Monarchs Negro League club.
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- In chapter one, Mahan argued that modern industrial nations must secure foreign markets for the purpose of exchanging goods and, consequently, they must maintain a maritime force that is capable of protecting these trade routes.
- The League also argued that the Spanish-American War was a war of imperialism camouflaged as a war of liberation.
- This effort led to the formation of the National Party, which nominated Senator Donelson Caffery of Louisiana.
- By 1920, the League was only a shadow of its former strength.
- The Anti-Imperialist League disbanded in 1921.
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- During the later years of Reconstruction, the White League was one of the paramilitary groups described as, "the military arm of the Democratic Party."
- The White League was effective; voting by Republicans decreased and Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1876.
- In an 1867 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, Klan members gathered to try to create an hierarchical organization with local chapters reporting up the line of command to a national headquarters.
- Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became Grand Wizard of the KKK, claiming to be the Klan's national leader.
- The Klan attacked black members of the Loyal Leagues and intimidated Southern Republicans and Freedmen's Bureau workers.
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- The Immigration Restriction League called for restrictions on immigration of people from certain parts of the world.
- On April 8, 1918 the League introduced a bill into the Congress to increase the restriction of immigration by means of numerical limitation.
- The influence of the Immigration Restriction League declined but it remained active for nearly twenty years.
- The League disbanded after the death of its president, Prescott F.
- Portrait of George Edmunds, a founding member of the Immigration Restriction League