Failure of the League of Nations in the Inter-War Period

After the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which brought an end to the First World War, the League of Nations was established by the President of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson's intention on establishing the League of Nations was to stop all conflicts and wars around the world from ever happening again using the idea of Collective Security as the solution. Collective Security protected every country by mutual assistance and termination of alliance …

…degenerated into a talking shop dominated by the European victors of World War I." Organizing the pact was a brilliant idea, but keeping it together, abiding by the rules, and making it a trustworthy international organization were the parts the members were not able to figure out. The League of Nations was an organization that was set up to free humans from all wars, but it backfired and became an organization that provoked another war.