6: League of Nations Pt. 3 - Failure

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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During the 1920s and 1930s the League of Nations would have many issues when attempting to execute on one of its most important goals, disarmament. It would not be the only challenge that the League would face in the 1930s. Website Patreon Twitter Facebook Discord Email: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.com Sources: Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World by Akira Iriye A History of the League of Nations by F.P Walters The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen In Pursuit of Equality and Respect: China's Diplomacy and the League of Nations by Alison Adcock Kaufman Collective Security as Political Myth: Liberal Internationalism and the League of Nations in Politics and History by George W. Egerton Transnationalism and the League of Nations: Understanding the Work of Its Economic and Financial Organization by Patrician Clavin and Jens-Wilhelm Wessels Getting Out of Iraq-in 1932: The League of Nations and the Road to Normative Statehood by Susan Pedersen A "Great Experiment" of the League of Nations Era: International Nongovernmental Organizations, Global Governance, and Democracy Beyond the State by Thomas Richard Davies The League of Nations Health Organisation and the Evolution of Transnational Public Health by Patricia Anne Sealey The League of Nations, International Terrorism, and British Foreign Policy, 1934-1938 by Michael D. Callahan Japan and the League of Nations: An Asian Power Encounters the "European Club" by Thomas W. Burkman Exporting Development: The League of Nations and Republican China by Margherita Zanasi The League of Nations and the Great Powers, 1936-1940 by Peter J. Beck The League of Nations and the Minorities Question by Carole Fink Imperialism and Sovereignty: The League of Nations' Drive to Control Global Arms Trade by David R. Stone The League of Nations, Public Ritual and National Identity in Britain, c. 1919-56 by Helen McCarthy The Legacies of Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations in Russia by Alexander S. Khodnev Mapping the UN - League of Nations Analogy: Are There Still Lessons to be Learned from the League by Alexandru Grigorescu Minorities and the League of Nations in Interwar Europe by Mark Mazower The League of Nations and the Settlement of Disputes by Lorna Lloyd The Transnational Dream: Politicians, Diplomats and Soldiers in the League of Nations' Pursuit of International Disarmament, 1920-1939 by Andrew Webster Turkey's Entrance into the League of Nations by Yucel Guclu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War episode 6, The League of Nations
0:48.1	Part 3, failure.
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1:12.6	So far in these episodes, we have discussed several of the core problems that the League of Nations
1:16.9	was created to solve, international cooperation, the administration of mandates, and organizing
1:22.2	collective security actions.
1:24.4	Today we will discuss two more of these items, before ending our series on the League of Nations
1:28.8	by looking at its slow decline in the 1930s.
1:32.0	The first topic with which the League of Nations would be highly involved was disarmament.
1:36.8	However, this would prove to be a very difficult topic on which to find widespread international
1:41.0	agreement.
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