USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

[SOURCES]
Which leader came up with the idea for the League of Nations

(A) Georges Clemenceau

(B) ** Woodrow Wilson

(C) David Lloyd George

(D) Winston Churchill

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -After World War I, US President Woodrow Wilson helped to build an international peacekeeping organization.

Concept note-2: -Though first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points plan for an equitable peace in Europe, the United States never became a member.

Concept note-3: -In January 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I, Wilson urged leaders from France, Great Britain and Italy to come together with leaders of other nations to draft a Covenant of League of Nations. Wilson hoped such an organization would help countries to mediate conflicts before they caused war.