The League of Nations, established in 1921, was the brainchild of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States during World War 1. The idea was conceived during the advent of the "Great War", and aimed to stop war through working together, improve people's lives, fight disease and slavery, help workers, and disarm the world. Although the League of Nations was successful in some of its endeavours to maintain world peace and harmony, the majority of their …
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…studied its establishment have criticised its workings, and basically stated that it was completely useless. However, it must be stated that the League did accomplish some feats, but the sheer scale of their goals was their main undoing. With the loss of America as a member, additional problems such as frequency of meetings, lack of resources, and an unstable structure proved to send the League of Nations crashing to its knees from its very beginning.