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League of Nations
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The League of Nations was the first permanent international organisation created to maintain world peace, established after the First World War under the Covenant attached to the Treaty of Versailles. Headquartered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, it had no armed force of its own and depended on member states to enforce its decisions, and it failed to prevent the aggressions of the 1930s that led to the Second World War. It formally ceased to exist on 20 April 1946, transferring its assets to the newly founded United Nations, whose Charter was shaped directly by the lessons of its predecessor's failure.
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Founded Year Founded Date HeadquartersGeneva, Switzerland (Palais des Nations) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The League of Nations was established in the treaty's opening articles (the League of Nations Covenant).
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The League of Nations is the direct institutional predecessor of the United Nations; it transferred its assets to the UN on its dissolution on 20 April 1946, and the UN Charter was shaped by the lessons of the League's failure to prevent the Second World War.
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