League Of Nations Case Study

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The League of Nations was an international organization to provide a forum for international disputes. It was president Wilson’s idea, and it was made after the World War One. The League of Nations was made to remain peace, and sometimes it failed, but on the other hand, she had achievements and successes. It helped many sick, poor and homeless people. In the following essay, I will develop the things that went wrong, her failures, and the things that went right, her achievements and successes.

To begin with, I am going to develop her achievements. She had five main achievements: refugees, transport, health, working conditions and social problems.
Firstly, I will talk about refugees. After war ended, a lot of people became refugees. For …show more content…

The League of nations recommended to mark shipping lanes and to produce an international highway code. They did this to organize road users and make the transport simpler. This also made them a better control of who was passing by.
In terms of health, they produced important achievements. They had three institutes, one in Singapore, in London and another in Denmark. This institutes helped to developed vaccines and fought with deadly diseases like leprosy or malaria. In addition, a global campaign was made to exterminate mosquitoes and the diseases of malaria and yellow fever was reduced. Also, the USSR took the advice of preventing the plague in Siberia. After 1945, The United Nations Organisation took the role of the Health committee as The World health Organization.
Speaking of working conditions, it succeeded in: In banning poisonous white lead from paint, in limiting working hours of children, in introducing a limit hour of 48 hours week and 8 per day, in improving working conditions generally for employers and in exposing the abuses that weren't known before the International Labour Organization (ILO) revealed them. However, not all the members adopted the changes, because they thought it would raise industrial cost. The changes were not even adopted by the League, because even if she wanted to, she didn't had enough funds to make them. So, she didn't do more than "name and …show more content…

Geneva was located in Switzerland, it was a financial center global-city. Britain and France created the Geneva Protocol in 1924. It claimed that if 2 members of the league had a dispute they would have to allow the league to solve the problem and accept its decisions. Before the plan was applied, there was an election in Britain. But the new conservative government refused to sign the protocol because they were concerned that Britain may have been forced to agree with something that wasn't one of her concerns. So, if one of the most important countries of the League refused to sign it, no one would. France and Britain hoped this protocol would strengthen the league, but instead it weakened it since it made her more

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