The League of Nations and Timeline Project

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    The League of Nations and Timeline Project

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    When the Treaty of Versailles was signed the League of Nations was established
  • First League session

    First session of the Council of the League, Paris. Things were going as expected.
  • Location

    The League of Nations is transferred from London to Geneva.
  • Court of Justice

    Court of Justice
    The Permanent Court of Justice enters the League.
  • First country notices to withdraw

    Brazil hands in their notice to leave the League in two years time. This shows the League didn't have such a successful start.
  • Germany's admission

    Germany's admission
    Germany is allowed to enter the League.
  • Wall street crash

    Since the crash drove many people into poverty it made it hard to deal with humanitarian crisises for the League.
  • Preventing War

    The Assembly takes up a General Convention to improve the ways of stopping future wars. This is what the League was set up for but it didn't really work because the Axis still came into power in the 1930s.
  • Admission of Iraq

    Iraq was admitted to the League. By now many countries joined the League and only a few left.
  • Japan leaves the League

    Japan leaves the League
    Japan leaves the League of Nations, a few months later Germany also leaves, this means that they applied to leave at around the same time indicating what was to come in 1939.
  • Jospeph Avenol and Benito Mussolini meeting in Rome.

    Avenol (French diplomat) and Mussolini (Italian dictator) have a meeting in Rome, this indicates tensions rising.
  • Non-Agression Middle East area

    Signature by Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey of a Treaty of Non-Aggression and Protocol establishing an understanding between the Near Eastern Countries.
  • Italy gives notice to leave the League

    Italy follows the footsteps of Japan and Germany about leaving the League, they would leave the League 2 years from now, right when ww2 starts.
  • Brussels economics conference.

    The Budgetary Economics Committee decides that the League budget for 1920 must be 20 per cent less than that for 1939, Brussels.
  • WW2

    WW2
    WW2 breaks out and the League is in a mess since their job was to prevent wars such as this one. Eventually the League fails and shuts down.
  • League of Nations Fails.

    League of Nations Fails.
    At the end of the second world war it was obvious that the League of Nations had failed, so they replaced it with the United Nations and transfered most assets over there.