History of Foreign Policy: League of Nations Fall 2011

After World War 1, The League of Nations was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson to solve international arguments. With the initiation of the Treaty of Versailles, the League was set up to prevent future wars from happening. The League of Nations is an organization made up of different countries whose mission is to create and maintain world peace. When nations came into conflict, the League unites in a meeting to compromise without commencing war. The League was to be based in Geneva, Switzerland. The League found Switzerland to be the best meeting destination because of its neutrality during the war. The League is connected to the history of Foreign Policy because the League handed down series of mandates that laid out the colonial boundaries of the Middle East in the Ottoman Empire territories. These boundaries continued to shape many political realities. Nationalists recognized President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Point Proposal for ending the war, and the United States began to involve itself more deeply in regional politics around the late 1940s. The League supported containment of communism and single power domination of regions. As a result, the United States have experienced changing relationships with other countries. The League of Nations is the precursor to the current United Nations and the peacekeeping strongly connects the importance of the League to Foreign Policies.