The Failed Start Of The League of Nations I THE GREAT WAR 1920
Sign up for Curiosity Stream and Nebula - and get 40% off annual plans right now: https://curiositystream.com/thegreatwar The League of Nations was US President Woodrow Wilson s tool for a new and peaceful world after the war of 1914-1918 - and the US should have been their most important member. But the United States never joined and today the League of Nations is often seen as a failure. Was it doomed from the start? » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A/join » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show. » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link) » SOURCES “The Treaty of Peace with Germany (The Treaty of Versailles),” June 28, 1919, United States Statutes at Large, art. 1-440. Walters, F.P. A History of the League of Nations. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1952) Link, Arthur et al., eds., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 45 (1984) Ray S. Baker and William E. Dodd, eds, The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Edition, Vol. 1, (New York, 1924) Matz, Nele, “Civilization and the Mandate System under the League of Nations as Origin of Trusteeship” in von Bogdandy, A and Wolfrum, R (eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Volume 9, 2005 Braumoeller, Bear F. ‘The Myth of American Isolationism’, Foreign Policy Analysis Vol. 6, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2010), pp. 349-371 “March 19, 1920: Senate Rejects Treaty of Versailles for Second and Final Time” New York Times, https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/19 /march-19-1920-senate- rejects-treaty-of-versailles-for-second-and-final-time/ Egerton, George W, ‘The Lloyd George Government and the Creation of the League of Nations’ The American Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 419-444 Burkman, Thomas W. ‘Japan and the League of Nations: AN ASIAN POWER ENCOUNTERS THE "EUROPEAN CLUB”, World Affairs, Vol. 158, No. 1, Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations: Part Two (SUMMER 1995), pp. 45-57 Rappart, William E. ‘Small States in the League of Nations’ Political Science Quarterly Vol. 49, No. 4 (Dec., 1934), pp. 544-575 Cox, James Middleston, Journey Through My Years, (Simon & Schuster: New York, 1946) ‘THE BRITISH EMPIRE, THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, AND THE UNITED STATES’ Advocate of Peace through Justice, Vol. 82, No. 7 (JULY, 1920), pp. 229-231 Dorsey, Leeroy G, ‘Woodrow Wilson s Fight for the League of Nations: A Reexamination’, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 107-135 “The Covenant of the League of Nations” AVALON PROJECT, Yale Law School, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/leagcov.asp “Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points” AVALON PROJECT, Yale Law School, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp Riddell, George Allardice, The Riddell diaries, 1908-1923, (London ; Dover, N.H. : Athlone Press, 1986) » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website: https://realtimehistory.net Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheGreatWarYT Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_great_war Twitter: https://twitter.com/WW1_Series Reddit: htpps://reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel » OTHER PROJECTS 16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Maps: Daniel Kogosov (https://www.patreon.com/Zalezsky) Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Alexander Clark Original Logo: David van Stephold Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020
