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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the league of nations which sounds

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a whole lot like a group of evil Supervillains doesn't

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all right here's your question what many historians believe caused

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the failure of the league of nations and hear the

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potential answer your exclusion nukes three well if we know

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anything about the league it's that they had a hard

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time deciding on a cool evil villain slogan tio no

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that's not right What we actually know is that germany

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was a part of the league which means our answer

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can't be eh And we don't know about you but

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we think it'd be pretty hard to exclude someone from

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an organization when they're you know a member of that

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organization we also known answer isn't d one of the

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reasons the league was founded in the first place was

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to actually put a stop to batman and it started

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running again It was to put a stop to the

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secret diplomacy they believe led to the first world war

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which may or may not have something to do with

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that man way also know that b isn't the right

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Choice why Well the primary goal of the league of

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nations was to maintain world peace the onset of the

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second world war was a pretty obvious sign that the

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whole thing was a big failure and since the development

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of nuclear arms didn't really kick off until well well

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in the world war to be simply doesn't make sense

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that leaves us with the correct answer is c the

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united states has a lot of experience with charging Not

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only did it leave the charge to establish the united

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nations in the wake of world war two but prior

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to that it had led the charge to establish the

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league of nations or rather president woodrow But when push

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came to shove us senate decided america wouldn't join the

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league donations for fear of getting involved in everyone else's

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business It was the lack of one of the world's

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major economic and military powers that ultimately made the league

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ineffective at enforcing its rules United nations went on to

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replace the league of nations and currently hold one hundred

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ninety three member states also seem a lot less like 00:02:03.52 --> [endTime] an evil supervillain group then more like don't don't

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