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Northwestern University

Northwestern University Library: League of Nations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
On January 21, 1931, 12 nations came together to form a European Union now known famously as the League of Nations. Read here as to the original constitution, organization and procedures that formed this union.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Us in Wwi: The League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the background to establishing the League of Nations, its role in facilitating peace negotiations, and why it ultimately failed to prevent World War II. Explains why the United States never joined it and how the United Nations...
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
Overivew of the end of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: World War I & the Great Depression the League of Nations

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational about the League of Nations during World War I. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Article
Other

The Penguin Companion to European Union: League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the development and policies surrounding the League of Nations, a world-wide attempt to keep the world from further war after World War I.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: League of Nations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson plan allows students to investigate why the League of Nations was rejected...
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Activity
Indiana University

Indiana University: League of Nations Photo Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative Indiana University site offers a pictorial guide to the League of Nations as well as valuable facts and background information. A detailed resource section provides a timeline, bibliography, and research guide. Peruse...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Debate in the United States Over the League of Nations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations" in 3 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Article
Northwestern University

Northwestern University Library: League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide provides a wide range of information regarding the League of Nations. It begins with a brief description of the League, its principal organizations and committees, and types of league resources. It includes document...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
President Woodrow Wilson had great hopes that a League of Nations would mean that there would be no more world wars. Read about the charter for the League of Nations, especially Article X, which provided the teeth for the organization....
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

For Students 5th - 8th
President Wilson lobbied for a "just peace" for the end of World War I. Read about his Fourteen Points that he thought would accomplish this. See how his plans for a League of Nations and the final terms of the Treaty of Versailles...
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Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Woodrow Wilson: Final Speech in Support of League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of President Woodrow Wilson's last speech in support of the League of Nations delivered on September 25, 1919, in Pueblo, Colorado.
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Ohio State University

E History: Covenant of the League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
From John Clark Ridpath's History of the World, this page offers the Covenant of the League of Nations. This is the official document that the League of Nations used as a charter.
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Other

League of Nations: 1920 1946 Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A color-coded map from Matthew White's Homepage showing which countries were a part of the League of Nations during specific times in history.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: The League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
After World War I, US President Woodrow Wilson helped to build an international peacekeeping organization.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Americans and the Great War 1914 1919: From War to Peace

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines how the United States contributed during the final stages of World War I, what Woodrow Wilson believed the world should look like after the war, and why the United States did not sign the Treaty of Versailles or join the League...
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Website
University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Woodrow Wilson: Foreign Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of Woodrow Wilson's foreign policies, including Moral Diplomacy, involvement in World War I, and his dream of a League of Nations.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: The Peacemaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how President Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, urged peace without revenge European self-determination, and the establishment of a peace-keeping League of Nations politicians both abroad and at home rejected his plans.
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docsteach: The Third League in Professional Baseball

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will analyze three documents from the court case The Federal League of Baseball Clubs v. The American and National Leagues of Baseball Clubs to gain an understanding of baseball contracts and labor issues in the...
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Website
Other

Nlbpa: Negro Leagues Baseball History

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the history of early Negro baseball beginnings in the late 19th century before reading about the advent of the Negro National League in the 1920s. Baseball was the American pastime for everyone in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Article
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: "The League of the Iroquois" by Matthew Dennis

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "The League of the Iroquois" by Matthew Dennis focuses on the 17th and 18th century "The League of the Iroquois" which united six Iroquois Nations: the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas,...
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Other

Le Mo: 1918 1933 Der Volkerbund

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief overview from LeMO of the founding and history of the League of Nations, which was formed as a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War I.
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Lesson Plan
National Archives (UK)

National Archives Learning Curve: The German Occupation of the Rhineland

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Partial original copies of documents from various nations of the Allies force responding to the occupation by Germans of Rhineland region.

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