After the First World War everyone wanted to avoid repetition of the mass slaughter of the war that had just ended. US was horrified by such an act, therefore, President Woodrow Wilson suggested an international body whose sole purpose was to maintain World peace. Before 1920 there was no such organization or place where the national Delegates could meet up and try to talk their way through their problems. After the War with great number of …showed first 75 words of 3753 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3753 total…to be an empty promise and two of its leading members had been working behind its back to allow the aggressor to win. Therefore the league started of to be a success in the 1920's but failed towards the end. It is a failure because History has judged it to be a failure. Its aim was to preserve world peace. But it could not stop the World War Two. Thus the league was a failure.