Why did the Allies consider the League of Nations when developing the United Nations?

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anonymous · Answer

I'd say that the League was on the right track, but it didn't have the kind of organization or prestige to last very long in its current form. But the blueprint was there making it easy to build the United Nations with and then go on from there. The idea that both share was to create an open forum for all nations to get together and discuss their problems openly and, hopefully, solve them in the same way. You can read more from the short summary of the UN's history at their official site: http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/

anonymous · Answer

*the League had also lost any credibility after failing to stop WW2, but the basic ideas it was founded on were still worth pursuing

anonymous · Answer

"The Allies wanted to understand clearly the weaknesses of the League."
Is the answer, I am 100% sure.

-The country, whose president, Woodrow Wilson, had dreamt up the idea of the League - America - refused to join it. As America was the world’s most powerful nation, this was a serious blow to the prestige of the League. However, America’s refusal to join the League, fitted in with her desire to have an isolationist policy throughout the world..

-However, the League did not have a military force at its disposal and no member of the League had to provide one under the terms of joining - unlike the current United Nations. Therefore, it could not carry out any threats and any country defying its authority would have been very aware of this weakness. The only two countries in the League that could have provided any military might were Britain and France and both had been severely depleted strength-wise in World War One and could not provide the League with the backing it needed.