Institution

League of Nations

The League of Nations was the international organisation founded after the First World War to preserve peace and settle disputes. It placed the former colonies of the German Empire and Ottoman territories under the mandate system, much of it administered by the British Empire. It condemned Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, but its sanctions failed to stop the expansion of the Italian Empire.

League of Nations
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British EmpireGovernanceGerman EmpireImpactItalian EmpireImpactIroquois ConfederacyDeclineCanadaGovernanceSwiss ConfederationImpactKingdom of BelgiumImpactRepublic of FinlandGovernanceUnited KingdomFoundationRattanakosin KingdomImpactKingdom of RwandaDeclineLiberiaGovernance, ImpactUnion of South AfricaImpactTanzaniaFoundation

Mentioned in 24 state histories

LiberiaGerman TogolandTerritory of Western SamoaPrincipality of AlbaniaSouth West AfricaRuanda-UrundiFrench TogolandBritish TogolandFrench CameroonWeimar RepublicSouth Seas MandateFirst Austrian Republicand 12 more

Great speeches

Wilson's Fourteen Points8 January 1918Haile Selassie at the League of Nations30 June 1936

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). League of Nations. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/league-of-nations
MLA
“League of Nations.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/league-of-nations. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “League of Nations.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/league-of-nations.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘League of Nations’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/league-of-nations (Accessed: ).

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