The League of Nations had set itself a wider task than simply waiting for disputes and hoping to solve them. Through its agencies, the League aimed to fight poverty, disease and injustice all over the world.
The League did tremendous work in getting refugees and former prisoners of war back to their homelands. It is estimated that in the first few years after the war about 400,000 prisoners were returned to their homes by the Leagues' agencies.
When a refugee crisis hit Turkey in 1922, hundreds of thousands of people had to be housed in refugee camps. The League acted quickly to stamp out cholera, smallpox and dysentery in the camps.
The International Labour Organisation was successful in banning poisonous white lead from paint and in limiting the hours that small children were allowed to work. It also campaigned strongly for employers to improve working conditions generally. It introduced a resolution for a maximum 48-hour week and 8 hour day, but only a minority of members adopted it because they thought it would raise costs in their own home industries.
The Health Committee, which later became the World Health Organisation, worked hard to defeat the dreadful disease leprosy. It started the global campaign to exterminate mosquitoes, which greatly reduced cases of malaria and yellow fever in later decades. Even Russia, which was otherwise opposed to the League, used the Health Committee to advise it on preventing plague in Siberia.
The League made recommendations on marking shipping lanes and produced an international highway code for road users.
The League blacklisted four large German, Dutch, French and Swiss companies, which were involved in the illegal drug trade. It brought about the freeing of slaves in British-owned Sierra Leone. It organised raids against slave owners and traders in Burma. It challenged the use of forced labour to build the Tanganiyka railway in Africa, where the Death Rate among African workers was a staggering 50%. League pressure brought this down to 4% which they said was 'a much more acceptable figure.'
Even in areas where it could not remove social injustice the League kept careful records of what was going on and provided information on problems such as drug trafficking, prostitution and slavery.
to secure mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
The League of Nations
The League of Nations was supposed to do many things, but first and foremost was to prevent another world war, which it failed to do.
The League of Nations.
There is no standard collective noun for a group of nations.A collective noun is an informal part of language. Any noun that suits the context can function as a collective noun; for example, a league of nations or a conspiracy of nations.
to keep peace in the world Some Americans felt that joining might lead to fighting in another war. The purpose of the League of Nations was supposed to be the same as the purpose of the United Nations. To prevent war, insure peace and understanding among the nations. However, It failed for various reasons.
The precursor to the Current United Nations was called the League of Nations. The League of Nations was founded in 1919. When the United Nations was formed in 1945, the League of Nations basically ceased to exist.
Nothing. The League of Nations was the predecessor to the United Nations. (:
There is no League of Nations. We have United Nations
The league of nations was created out of WWI.
The United Nations predecessor organization was the League of Nations which was founded at the end of WW1 as a result of the Treaty of Versailles and managed to attract at its best the participation of 58 countries during 24 September 1934 and 23 February 1935.
Original Answer: Because they are decades away. Improved: The United Nations are not a country. They couldn't have "joined" the League of Nations. The League of Nations was the predecessor of the United Nations - the League of Nations failed, and so, many years later in 1942 (I believe it was that year) they founded the United Nations as an improved "League of Nations."
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