What were its aims?

• To stop from wars
• Encourage disarmament
• Making the world better place with more peace by enhancing people's living conditions
• Tackling diseases and illnesses people had

The structure of the organization of the league

• Its organization is made up of an assembly, which met once in a year,
• A council, which met regularly to tackle the major worldwide issues and crises
• A small secretariat to handle the paperwork
• Had an idea of collective security (Number of different states attempting to prevent or stop wars from happening).
• A court of international justice
• A number of commissions such as International labor organization and health commission.

What were the strengths?

• Its main strengths were that it had set up by the Treaty of Versailles, which every nation had signed
• 58 nations signed and joined as members of the league by 1930s
• Could offer negotiations through the court of international justice
• Could apply trade sanctions against countries that went to the war

What were the weaknesses?

• It was set up by the Treaty of Versailles
• Its aims were two ambitious , hard to meet
• Germany, Russia and USA were not members of the league
• It had no army
• Organization was unmanageable
• Decisions had to be consistent and uniform (everyone needs to agree)
• Complex structure pf the league and its covenants ( had a lot of difficult legal contracts, agreements to handle)

The permanent members of the league of nations council

• 1920-1926: UK, France, Italy, Japan
• 1926-1933: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan
• 1933-1934: UK, France , Italy
• 1934-1937: UK, France, Italy, Soviet Union
• 1937-1939: UK, France, Soviet Union
• 1939-1946: UK, France

How could the league punish a country?

• Military Sanctions
• Trade Sanctions
• Economic Sanctions
• Condemnation
• World Opinion (Moral disagreement)