10 fact about the league of nations?
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Fact 1, it is a league.
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Conditions\nThe treaty had provided for the creation of the League of Nations, a major goal of US president Wilson. The League of Nations was intended to arbitrate international disputes and thereby avoid future wars. Only four of Wilson's Fourteen Points were realized, since Wilson was compelled to compromise with Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando on some points in exchange for retaining approval of the "fourteenth point", the League of Nations. The common view has been that France's Clemenceau was the most vigorous in his pursuit of revenge against Germany, the Western Front of the war having been fought chiefly on French soil.\n\nOther provisions included the loss of the German colonial empire and loss of some territories Germany had annexed or conquered in the relatively recent past:\n\nAlsace-Lorraine, the territories which were ceded to Germany in accordance with the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles on February 26, 1871, and the Treaty of Frankfurt of May 10, 1871, were restored to French sovereignty without plebiscite as from the date of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. (area 14,522 km², 1,815,000 inhabitants (1905)), \nNorthern Schleswig including the German-dominated towns of Tondern Tønder, Apenrade, Sonderburg, Hadersleben and Luegum in Schleswig-Holstein, after the Schleswig Plebiscite, to Denmark (area 3,984 km², 163,600 inhabitants (1920)), \nthe Prussian provinces Posen and (West Prussia), which Prussia had annexed in Partitions of Poland (1772-1795), were returned to the reborn Poland. This territory was already liberated by local Polish population during the Great Poland Uprising of 1918-1919 (area 53,800 km², 4,224,000 inhabitants (1931)). West Prussia was given to Poland to provide free acces to the sea, along with a sizeable German minority, creating the so-called Polish corridor. \nHultschin Hulczyn area of Upper Silesia to Czechoslovakia (area 316 or 333 km², 49,000 inhabitants), \nEast part of Upper Silesia, to Poland (area 3,214 km², 965,000 inhabitants), although after plebiscite 60 % voted for Germany \nthe area of German cities Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium \nthe area of Soldau in East Prussia (railway station on the Warsaw-Gdańsk route) to Poland (area 492 km²), \nNorthern part of East Prussia as Memelland under control of France, later transferred to Lithuania without plebiscite. \nin Eastern part of West Prussia and in Southern part of East Prussia Warmia and Masuria, small area to Poland, \nthe province Saarland under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, after that a plebiscite between France and Germany, \nthe city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) with the delta of Vistula river at the Baltic Sea was made the Freie Stadt Danzig (Free City of Danzig) under the League of Nations. (area 1893 km², 408,000 inhabitants (1929)). \nArticle 156 of the treaty transferred German concessions in Shandong, China to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to China. Chinese outrage over this provision led to demonstrations and a cultural movement known as the May Fourth Movement and influenced China not to sign the treaty. China declared the end of its war against Germany on September 1919 and signed a separate new equal treaty with Germany in 1921.\n\n[edit]\nMilitary\nFrance's loss of Alsace-Lorraine after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the reparations required of France by Germany plus the deliberate destruction and plundering of Northern France by the retreating German army in the final days of war in 1918, contributed to the staunch position taken by France for reparations and the return of territory. Furthermore, the large number of casualties and massive economic damage resulting from the war (much of which was fought on French soil) caused a fear of future German aggression and an even greater sentiment for revenge.\n\nThe German Army was to be restricted to 100,000 men, there were to be no tanks or heavy artillery and no Ger
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United States\nGermany\nItaly\nJapan\nUnited Kingdom\nFrance\nCanada\nRussian Federation
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Basiclly in brief, Churchhill (GB) and FDR on a ship in Aug, 1941 talking about \nIn brief, the eight points were:\n\n-no territorial gains sought by the United States or the United Kingdom; \n-territorial adjustments must be in accord with wishes of the people; \n-the right to self-determination of peoples; \n-trade barriers lowered; \n-global economic cooperation and advancement of social welfare; \n-freedom from want and fear; \n-freedom of the seas; \n-disarmament of aggressor nations, postwar common disarmament
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The exact amount of nations that are members of FIFA is 192 nations. Which are the ones who compete for the right to participate in the FIFA World Cup Tournament That's held every four years and allows 32 nations as it finalist to compete. Any Nation that is not a member of FIFA can not participate.
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Try this link its really comprehensive:\n\nhttp://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/gw1.htm
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The U.N. stands for United Nations.\n\nThis is a replacement for The League of Nations which was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The League's goals included disarmament; preventing war through collective security; settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy; and improving global welfare. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years. The old philosophy, growing out of the Congress of Vienna (1815), saw Europe as a shifting map of alliances among nation-states, creating a balance of power maintained by strong armies and secret agreements. Under the new philosophy, the League was a government of governments, with the role of settling disputes between individual nations in an open and legalist forum. The impetus for the founding of the League came from Democratic U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, though the United States never joined the League of Nations.\n\nThe League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were often very reluctant to do. After a number of notable successes and some early failures, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of the Second World War made it clear that the League had failed in its primary purpose—to avoid any future world war. The United Nations replaced it after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.\n\nThe United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." It was founded in 1945 by 51 states, replacing The League of Nations which was founded in 1919.\n\nAs of 2006 there exist 191 United Nations member states, including virtually all internationally recognised independent nations, except Vatican City (the Holy See) (which has declined membership but is an observer state), Palestine (whose status is still one of a de facto state, and has not yet legally declared statehood), Niue (whose foreign affairs are dealt with by the New Zealand Government) and Taiwan, which has not been internationally recognised as independent or as the Republic of China (whose status as a member state was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1971). Palestine and the Holy See both have Permanent Observer Missions to the UN.\n\nFrom its headquarters in New York City, the UN's member countries and specialised agencies give guidance and decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout each year. The organisation is divided into administrative bodies, including the UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, UN Economic and Social Council, UN Trusteeship Council, UN Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice, as well as counterpart bodies dealing with the governance of all other UN system agencies, such as the WHO and UNICEF. The UN's most visible public figure is the Secretary-General.\n\nThe UN was founded after the end of World War II by the victorious world powers with the hope that it would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible, by fostering an ideal of collective security. The organization's structure still reflects in some ways the circumstances of its founding. For example, the five main victors of World War II are the Security Council permanent members with veto power: The United States of America, the Soviet Union (which was replaced by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, and the Republic of China (later replaced by the People's Republic of China). Writer Alistair Cooke suggested in one of his "Letter from America" radio programmes that Stalin had in fact come up with the idea of the present
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The fourteen points are listed, in summary, below.  Read through them.  What do you think he wanted?\n\nWilson hoped for a "just and lasting peace".  He delivered his 14 Points to Congress, January 8, 1918.  The idealism expressed gave him a position of moral leadership amongst the other Allied leaders.\n\nHis 14th point was realized in the League of Nations, as a result of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.\n\n\nFROM MSN ENCARTA:\n   \n"In summary, the 14 points were as follows: (1) abolition of secret diplomacy by open covenants, openly arrived at; (2) freedom of the seas in peace and war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or part by international action for enforcement of international covenants; (3) removal of international trade barriers wherever possible and establishment of an equality of trade conditions among the nations consenting to the peace; (4) reduction of armaments consistent with public safety; (5) adjustment of colonial disputes consistent with the interests of both the controlling government and the colonial population; (6) evacuation of Russian territory, with the proviso of self-determination; (7) evacuation and restoration of Belgium; (8) evacuation and restoration of French territory, including Alsace-Lorraine; (9) readjustment of Italian frontiers along clearly recognizable lines of nationality; (10) autonomy for the peoples of Austria-Hungary; (11) evacuation and restoration of territory to Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania, granting of seaports to Serbia, and readjustment and international guarantee of the national ambitions of the Balkan nations; (12) self-determination for non-Turkish peoples under Turkish control and internationalization of the Dardanelles; (13) an independent Poland, with access to the sea; and (14) creation of a general association of nations under specific covenants to give mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity."
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The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations which was considered by many to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body: it had been formed in response to World War I, on the premise that such wars could be prevented by such an entity, yet had failed to prevent World War II. \n\nThe biggest advantage the United Nations has over the League of Nations is the ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers.\n\nThe term "United Nations" (which term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was suggested by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies.\n\nThe idea for the UN was elaborated in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo and Tehran in 1943. From August to October 1944, representatives of France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. Those and later talks produced proposals outlining the purposes of the organization, its membership and organs, and arrangements to maintain international peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were discussed and debated by governments and citizens worldwide.\n\nOn April 25, 1945, the UN Conference on International Organizations began in San Francisco. In addition to the Governments, a number of non-governmental organizations, including Lions Clubs International, were invited to assist in drafting the charter. The 50 nations represented at the conference signed the Charter of the United Nations two months later on June 26. Poland had not been represented at the conference, but a place had been reserved for it among the original signatories, and it added its name later. The UN came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.\n\nInitially, the body was known as the United Nations Organisation, or UNO. However, by the 1950s, English speakers were referring to it as \nThe United Nations, or The UN.
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Although the League of Nations (supporting the peace) was an idea of US president W.Wilson USA never accesed to that organisation. Germany (the country that wanted the most the WWI) lost the WWI, but was not defeated. After WWI no country nocticed no took into account that changes in Russia, since 1922 Soviet Union, would be permanent and that they would create a new and the first (?) totalitar country in the world.
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There are 191 Nations included in the General Assembly including virtually every recognized independent state in the world. \n\nThyere are 15 Nations on the security council. 5 Permanent Members (France, US, UK, China, Russia) and 10 Elected Nations who are elected by the General Assembly for 2 year terms.
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The League of Nations, was the dream of President Wilson, following up on the idea of a forum of nations to provide international security and a means of resolving conflicts peacefully.  This concept had developed from the ideas of such scholars as Grotius (one of the originators of the idea of "international law,") and the International Disarmament Movement and the International Court ( http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h989.html ) As part of his Fourteen Point Peace plan to end WWI Wilson had a League of Nations.  It was adopted by the Versailles Peace conference and headquartered in Geneva. It failed for two basic reasons:\n1) The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty because of the League.  The Republican Party made anti-internationalism a major plank in the 1920 election.  Part of this was due to Wilson, and his refusal to compromise with the Senate leadership.  In any case the U.S. refused to join leaving the League weakened at birth.\n2) The league had no Security Council system.  This now seems a weakness in the U.N., but for the league it was fatal, there was no body empowered to raise an international force to act on any League resolution (for example, the League condemned Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, but there was no League "peace keeping" force to try to stop the conflict.)\nFinally with the growth of totalitarian aggression in the 1930s the League fell apart - Japan left in 1932, followed by Italy and Germany. By the time WWII broke out the League had no influence. \n(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations)\nThe U.N. was the successor organization, envisioned by Roosevelt (a strong supporter of the league.) The term United Nations comes from the Atlantic Charter, an early (1941) meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill calling for a free world after the war.  In 1945 an international conference in San Francisco worked out the basis for the U.N. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations)  It is headquartered in New York, and has a different structure from the League of Nations, which has allowed it to undertake peace-keeping duties and last (so far) for 61 years.
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..........\nThe spread of football outside of Great Britain, mainly due to the British influence abroad, started slow, but it soon gathered momentum and spread rapidly to all parts of the world. The next countries to form football associations after the Netherlands and Denmark in 1889 were New Zealand (1891), Argentina (1893), Chile (1895), Switzerland, Belgium (1895), Italy (1898), Germany, Uruguay (both in 1900), Hungary (1901) and Finland (1907). When FIFA was founded in Paris in May 1904 it had seven founder members: France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain (represented by the Madrid FC), Sweden and Switzerland. The German Football Federation cabled its intention to join on the same day.\n\nThis international football community grew steadily, although it sometimes met with obstacles and setbacks. In 1912, 21 national associations were already affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). By 1925, the number had increased to 36, in 1930 - the year of the first World Cup - it was 41, in 1938, 51 and in 1950, after the interval caused by the Second World War, the number had reached 73. At present, after the 2000 Ordinary FIFA Congress, FIFA has 204 members in every part of the world.\n\nu can more in that link..good luck.
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There are presently 191 member States of the United Nations
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Go to www.fifa.com . There you will find the Laws of the Game. It will help with your assignment.
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Here is Haile Selassie speech to the league of nations. He gave this speech after Italy invaded his country. The speech was given June 1936.
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Treaty of Versailles as you know was signed between Germany and the allied powers. According to this treaty A League of Nations was formed of which Germany wasn't made a member initially. The borders with countries like Austria, France, Poland, Luxembourg was well defined. The Saar basin of Germany consisting of mineral resources was handed to France for compensation of war. The union of Austria and Germany was banned. The colonies of Germany were handed to other countries for administration. The Rhine valley was demilitarised up to 50km from French Border. The military of Germany was severely curtailed. Apart from this many other sanctions were imposed causing Germany to disagree with it.