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After world war 2 and the cold war, the world has developed rapidly into the world we live in today. Things like the United Nations, attempting to keep a nuclear war from being developed, were founded on the conclusion of world war 2. However, the United Nations was not the first attempt to keep the peace. After world war 1, an attempt known as The League of Nations was made. Comparing the two, we can see that the United Nations was and still is far more successful in this endeavor. First, in order to compare the two, we must talk about how the two formed. The League Of Nations formed after ww1. In his Fourteen Point speech, Woodrow Wilson claims the League of Nations should be set up to maintain world peace, “For such arrangements and covenants we are willing to fight and to continue to fight until they are achieved; but only because we wish the right to prevail and desire a just and stable peace such as can be secured only by removing the chief provocations to war, which this program does remove.”(Wilson) …show more content…

This is due to the pro isolation sentiment of the American people at the time. A speech from a United States senator sums up the sentiment of the American people “But I am certain that we can do it best by not putting ourselves in leading strings, or subjecting our policies and our sovereignty to other nations.”(Lodge). So in all, the United States did not join due to the mentality of not wanting to involve ourselves in international affairs. Knowing the creation of the League of Nations is important, but more importantly, we must discuss the successes and ultimate failures of the League of

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