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Case Studies of the United Nations

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After the guns of World War I fell silent, a defeated Germany entered into the Treaty of Versailles during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Wary of the devastation caused by the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States took the initiative during the Paris Peace Conference to include treaty language for the creation of an international organization to prevent another great war from recurring. Thus the League of Nations was born. President Wilson, however, failed to convince his fellow Americans to become members of his brainchild, the League of Nations.

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Fukushima, A. (1999). Case Studies of the United Nations. In: Japanese Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403915924_3

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