POLI 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wall Street Crash Of 1929, E. H. Carr, Covenant Of The League Of Nations
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Did the treaty of versailles follow the fourteen points. Wilson"s fourteen points embody a vision for peaceful international society that included. During this time, war became more legally constrained as a legitimate institution of international society. League covenants, especially article 10, strived to prevent war. In 1928, the kellogg-briand pact was signed by several nations and essentially tried to outlaw war among the signing countries. Eh carr basically scorned the nations for attempting to outlaw war because he claimed they were ignoring the essential causes of war, namely political and economic power. After world war i, there were global monetary management problems due to war debts and reparation costs. The league of nations created various agencies related to economic and technical issues. The economic issues caused by world war i were further worsened by the 1929 stock market crash which consequently caused the great. Depression and the increase of trade barriers between countries.