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The establishment of the League of Nations was the first step taken to preserve world peace in the aftermath of World War I.
However, its relevance -- and existence -- ceased due to a failure that was quite similar to the inefficiency being exhibited today by the UN in its handling of the Syrian civil war.
While Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 was the final nail in its coffin, the longer chain of events leading to the end of the League of Nations commenced right after the Treaty of Versailles.
Italian nationalists invading Port of Flume in Yugoslavia