How did the League of Nations Fail?

League of Nations failed because of following reasons: America – refused to join it: America not joining it was a big blow to the league as America was the world’s most powerful nation. Germany was not allowed to join the League in 1919. read more

Created at the Paris Peace Conference, the League’s Covenant was embedded in the text of the Versailles Treaty at the insistence of its great patron Woodrow Wilson. But when the U.S. Senate proposed reservations to the Covenant, to protect U.S. sovereignty and freedom of action, the president rejected them all. read more

The League of Nations was the first intergovernment organization that was established after World War 1 in order to try and maintain the peace. Unfortunately the League failed miserably in its intended goal: to prevent another world war from happening (WW2 broke out only two decades later). read more