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Formation of League of Nations and U.N.O

The League of Nations was formed in 1919 with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to enforce  the Treaty of Versailles and peace agreements that concluded World War I. It was a thought up by American President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. It was intended to replace secret deals  and war as means for settling international disputes with open diplomacy with peaceful mediation and disarmament & improving global welfare.  The reason for its downfall was that American public after voting refused to join the treaty. Hitler also ordered its German delegates to withdraw from the League of Nations. He gave excuse that though Germany was disarmed while other countries refused to do so. The League miserably failed in its goal to to prevent another World War which broke out two decades later. A replacement of effective League of Nations established after World War II in October 1945 with the founding 51 members, it has now 193 member states. U.N. charter sets out four main p