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The League of Nations, a former international organization, was formed after World War I to promote international peace and security. The basis of the League, also called the Covenant, was written into the Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties and provided for an assembly, a council, and a secretariat.
In the 1920s the League faced a number of challenges, which some resulted in successes and some in failures. Some examples of successes are that; It stopped border disputes turning into wars. In Silesia in 1921 it held a plebiscite and suggested a division, which stopped a war between Germany and Poland. It arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands in 1921 (its investigation showed that the islands belonged to Finland). When Greece invaded Bulgaria in 1925, the League ordered Greece to leave, which it did. The highest point of the League's work was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, an Act of the League's Assembly, supported by 65 nations, which prohibited war.
The League also improved people's lives. It took 400,000 Prisoners of War home...