USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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How did the League try to maintain peace?

(A) ** Arbitration

(B) ** Sanctions

(C) ** Disarmament

(D) ** Moral Persuasion

(E) War

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The League’s goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare.

Concept note-2: -By establishing a bond of solidarity between Member States, the League is considered the first attempt to build a system of collective security. This principle relied on a simple idea: an aggressor against any Member State should be considered an aggressor against all the other Member States.

Concept note-3: -Appealing to the ethical principles or beliefs of an adversary or the public to convince the adversary to change behavior or attitudes.

Concept note-4: -Most important for Wilson, the League would guarantee the territorial integrity and political independence of member states, authorize the League to take “any action…to safeguard the peace, ” establish procedures for arbitration, and create the mechanisms for economic and military sanctions.

Concept note-5: -The League of Nations effectively resolved some international conflicts but failed to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War.