USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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The League of Nations was based upon what principle (why was it something that SHOULD be established?)

(A) Country’s should work independently from each other, but help each other when disasters happened.

(B) ** Collective security. An attack on one country is an attack on all countries.

(C) Country’s should join together to destroy Germany once and for all.

(D) The League of Nations should rule over all countries in the world.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -This principle relied on a simple idea: an aggressor against any Member State should be considered an aggressor against all the other Member States. The League of Nations was also in charge of supervising the Mandate system.

Concept note-2: -Overview. The League of Nations was established at the end of World War I as an international peacekeeping organization. Although US President Woodrow Wilson was an enthusiastic proponent of the League, the United States did not officially join the League of Nations due to opposition from isolationists in Congress.

Concept note-3: -Collective Security: Meaning The basic principle of “one for all and all for one” is the principle underneath it. Andrew Heywood defines it as “the theory or practice of states pledging to defend one another in order to deter aggression or to punish a transgressor if international order has been breached…”1 .

Concept note-4: -The idea of the actual League of Nations appears to have originated with British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, and it was enthusiastically adopted by the Democratic U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and his advisor Colonel Edward M. House as a means of avoiding bloodshed like that of World War I.