The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that e
The 1864 Geneva Convention, one of the earliest formulations of written international law
Lord Bryce, one of the earliest advocates for a League of Nations
Jan Smuts helped to draft the Covenant of the League of Nations.
The League to Enforce Peace published this full-page promotion in The New York Times on Christmas Day 1918. It resolved that the League "should ensure peace by eliminating causes of dissension, by deciding controversies by peaceable means, and by uniting the potential force of all the members as a standing menace against any nation that seeks to upset the peace of the world".
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by the French Republic, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the United States, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empi
League of Nations
…behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked its own armed force and depended on the victorious Allied Powers of World War I (Britain, France, Italy and Japan were the initial permanent members of the Council) to enforce its resolutions, keep to its economic sanctions, or…
1918 French poster, depicting the national flags of the Allies
HMS Dreadnought; the 1902, 1904 and 1907 agreements with Japan, France and Russia allowed Britain to refocus resources during the Anglo-German naval arms race.
A propaganda postcard captioned 'Sons of the Empire; Canada, India & Australia'
Indian soldiers of the 2nd Rajput Light Infantry on the Western Front, winter of 1914–15