League of Nations

  • Founding members

    Argentina (left in 1921 on rejection of an Argentine resolution that all sovereign states be admitted to the League.[1] It resumed full membership in 1933 [2])
    Belgium
    Bolivia
    Brazil (withdrew 14 June 1926)
    British Empire separate membership for:[3]
    United Kingdom
    Australia
    Canada
    India (then under British rule and including the region of present-day India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan).[3]
    New Zealand
    South Africa
    Chile (withdrew 14 May 1938)
    China
    Colombia
    Cuba
  • Period: to

    League of Nations

  • Countries joined in 1920

    Austria (joined 15 December 1920; left 13 March 1938)
    Bulgaria (joined 16 December 1920)
    Costa Rica (joined 16 December 1920; withdrew 22 January 1925)
    Finland (joined 16 December 1920)
    Luxembourg (joined 16 December 1920)
    Albania (joined 17 December 1920)
  • Countries joined in 1921

    Estonia (joined 22 September 1921)
    Latvia (joined 22 September 1921)
    Lithuania (joined 22 September 1921)
  • Hungary joined in 1922

    Hungary (joined 18 September 1922; withdrew 14 April 1939)
  • Countries joined in 1923

    Irish Free State (joined 10 September 1923, known as Ireland from 1937)
    Abyssinia (joined 28 September 1923)
  • Dominican Republic joinged in 1924

    Dominican Republic (joined 29 September 1924)
  • Germnay joined in 1926

    Germany (joined 8 September 1926; withdrew 19 October 1933)
  • Mexico joined in 1931

    Mexico (joined 23 September 1931)
  • Countries joined in 1932

    Turkey (joined 18 July 1932)
    Kingdom of Iraq (joined 3 October 1932)
  • Countries joined in 1934

    Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (joined 18 September 1934; expelled 14 December 1939)
    Afghanistan (joined 27 September 1934)
    Ecuador (joined 28 September 1934)
  • Kingdom Of Egypt joined in 1937

    Kingdom of Egypt (joined 26 May 1937)
  • Countries at end of league

    Abyssinia
    Afghanistan
    Argentina
    Belgium
    Bolivia
    British Empire separate membership for:[3]
    United Kingdom
    Australia
    Canada
    India
    New Zealand
    South Africa
    Bulgaria
    China
    Colombia
    Cuba
    Czechoslovakia
    Dominican Republic
    Ecuador
    Egypt
    Estonia
    France
    Greece
    Iraq
    Iran
    Ireland
    Latvia
    Liberia
    Lithuania
    Mexico
    Netherlands
    Norway
    Panama
    Poland Portugal
    Thailand
    Turkey
    Sweden
    Switzerland
    Uruguay
    Yugoslavia