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League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
Timeline of Events
1919
1.25.1919
The League of Nations is founded.
1920
1.10.1920
The League of Nations holds its first meeting, and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, therefore ending World War I.
1.19.1920
The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
11.15.1920
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1922
7.20.1922
The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
9.18.1922
Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
1924
10.2.1924
The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
1926
6.14.1926
Brazil leaves the League of Nations
9.8.1926
Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1933
10.19.1933
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
10.21.1933
Adolf Hitler withdraws Nazi Germany from the League of Nations
1935
10.19.1935
The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1936
6.30.1936
Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
1937
2.21.1937
The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
12.11.1937
Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
1938
9.30.1938
The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939
12.14.1939
Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
1940
7.20.1940
Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
1946
4.8.1946
The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.