League of Nations
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The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global welfare. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, keep to economic sanctions which the League ordered, or provide an army, when needed, for the League to use.
After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing another world war since the Allied nations were determined to destroy National Socialist Germany.
The United Nations Organization replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
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