LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Successes of League of Nations

ZEESHAN MEHMOOD
Roll No: 181940

Department of Political Science, GPGC, Haripur

International Organizations
 LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes
between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare. The diplomatic
philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years.

Success of League of Nation:

• New spirit of co-operation following the horrors of the First World War.
• The Great Depression changed that by making countries more isolated from each other and more
selfish as they tried to rebuild their economies.
• The Great Depression also increased nationalism in nations, making them more likely to want to
expand territory aggressively.
• The problems caused by the Great Depression also made people in those countries turn to extremist
parties as they offered solutions- namely aggressive, territorial expansion.

Some of the reasons why the League was more successful was simply because the Great Depression changed
the circumstances of these countries. It was not completely successful in the 1920s, partly due to weaknesses
in its own structure.

The notable successes of the League:

Other successes:
The League was the first international organization to suggest that the world community should take
collective action to tackle problems such as starvation, disease, and child slave labor.

Health Committee International Labor Slavery Commission Commission for

Channeled resources into Organization Ending slavery in Refugees
ending leprosy, malaria, Closed four Swiss Abyssinia enabling it to Oversaw the return of
and yellow fever. companies selling illegal join in 1926, worked prisoners of war to their
International campaign drugs. with Liberia to abolish homes. Returned
to exterminate Restricted addition of forced labor, kept prisoners of war to their
mosquitoes. Prevented lead to paint, convinced records to control homes (400,000 of
typhus epidemics in the countries to adopt an 8- slavery, prostitution, and them). Helped refugees
Soviet Union (Russia). hour workday and 48 human trafficking. Set in Turkish camps by
hour working week, free 200,000 slaves in sending doctors to stop
worked to end child Sierra Leone and Burma. the spread of typhoid
labor, increased and cholera, spent £10
women’s rights in the million on building
workplace. Survived and homes for refugees and
became part of the supplying them with
United Nations. farming tools and
equipment.

But:
• They were never going to solve the problem of disease.
• It was difficult to ensure that all countries and companies complied with new rules and regulations.
This also led to conflict across big business and the USA was not in it and was one of the largest
economies.
• Slavery went underground and became more difficult to solve.
• Racism was a huge problem for the Commission for refugees.