Complete 5 pages APA formatted article: The United Nations and the League of Nations. The difference between the two world bodies arises from the circumstances at the time of their inception, and this explains the success and failures. The League of Nations was formed at the end of a war, whereas the United Nations was formed as the war was ongoing (Wells 2005). Covenants were also created by different environments. For instance, the League of Nations’ Covenant was signed behind closed doors with the leading powers of the time namely. France, Italy, Japan, the UK, the US and eventually nine other affiliate countries. While the United Nations Charter was created and signed with the combined efforts of 50 nations present at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. These circumstances of creation were the reason for the failure and success of similar but somehow different world bodies.
This paper will base its argument on whether the United Nations was essentially the revived League of Nations on the similarities and differences between the two organizations to ascertain whether one was a build up of the other, or they were created by very diverse situations. This will be in terms of their structures, the treaties signed their objectives, missions and visions, successes and failures.
The League of Nations’ structure was mainly made of the Assembly, the Council and the Secretariat. The Member States were allowed three representatives each in the Assembly and one vote, who met once a year at its headquarters in Geneva and they could also meet up when emergencies arose. The primary function of the Assembly was to control the budget, the membership of the League and appointing the Council, which was the executive body of the League. The council was the decision-making body of the League. it met on an average of five times a year. Its initial member states were Britain, France, Italy and Japan and four .members who were non-permanent, which later rose to six members (Brinkley & Townsend, 2000). The secretariat was in charge of running the other bodies that the League of Nations created.
