The League of Nations
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The Failures of the League of Nations
It was actually Wilson who encouraged the pro-Treaty Democrats to vote no rather than compromise. On the final vote taken on March 19, 1920, it was 49 in favor and 35 against. The big problem with the League of Nations is that they had no teeth. They couldn't enforce anything that they passed. When war officially broke out in 1939, most of the members were not involved with the war.
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