WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR I

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did the League try to maintain peace?
A
Arbitration
B
Sanctions
C
Disarmament
D
Moral Persuasion
E
War
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The League of Nations was a international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The League’s goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare.

Detailed explanation-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.

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

Detailed explanation-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.

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

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