The Vienna Congress, which brought together all the major European powers of the time, led on 9 June 1815 to the signing of the final act of the Congress of Vienna, a document of one hundred and twenty-one articles written in three hundred leaflets throwing the foundations of a new order. Among the innovations agreed in Vienna were new rules governing diplomatic relations, such as the official titles given to the various categories of State representatives and the precedence of States in alphabetical order. These basic rules have simplified bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, becoming an ongoing process of codification of normal diplomatic relations. The biggest innovation of the Vienna Congress was the follow-up conference. After …show more content…
At the same time, it contains the outline of an international organization: Article 6 provides for periodic meetings "devoted to major interests" and the maintenance of peace. From there emerge the great congresses which punctuate the international life during the following years. Following the Vienna conference, there was a whole series of other conferences such as those of. Since the 1860s, the series of multilateral conferences has been replaced by permanent institutions, then known as the International Public Unions. They included, inter alia, the International Telegraph Union (1865), the Universal Postal Union (1874), the International Association of Railway Congress (1884) and the International Office of Public Health (1907). These unions held general assemblies rather than ad hoc conferences, had secretaries, and later general secretaries, aware of the dependence on past choices. Thanks to the agreements of 1815, Europe experienced a relative peace until the first world war. It was after this that was created the society of nations in 1919 whose Covenant was signed at Versailles and whose objectives include disarmament, the prevention of wars through the principle of collective security, the resolution of conflicts through negotiation, and overall improvement of the quality of life. In the same year, the International Labor Organization was set up,
The Treaty of Versailles was a formal peace treaty between the Word War I Allies and Germany. The leaders of Britain, France, Italy and the United States met in Paris in early 1919 to draft the treaty. President Woodrow Wilson presented his Fourteen Points, a series of measures intended to ensure future peace. The points included the formation of an international organization known as the League of Nation, which was adopted in the treaty. Representatives of each country signed the treaty in June 1919.
The League of Nations was an organization created following the year after the concession of World War I in 1918. The purpose of this union was to maintain world stability and peace. The League of Nations was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points and was considered relatively controversial. Congress had to vote upon whether the United States would join or not. Two of the Senators gave speeches, Senator Gilbert Hitchcock and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, advocating their parties’ views.
The United Nations was formed from the Treaty of Versailles and it consists of most countries around the world. The UN was created specifically to promote peace among its 193 member in securing peace and stability around the world. In addition, politically, the war had led to the downfall of most European monarchies. For instance, the Austria-Hungary empire and other imperial dynasties were diminished due to the war. Economically, the war severely disrupted the European economies and allowed the United States to become the world’s superpower.
What was one of the earlier attempts to create an institution to promote international cooperation?
By the end of the first world war, the international community founded the League of Nations, the first international security organization with the primary goal of maintaining world peace. The first world war saw drastic increases in mankind 's capacity to kill other human beings and cause insurmountable harm to human society and culture. The human condition was drastically different. With a new world war on the horizon, the international community had decided to band together to form a way in which it could help exercise the correct legal disposition and formality to positively influence the world. An international body was crucial after the first world war in order to maintain peace and order as the world picked up the pieces from their injustices. This was also true after the Second world war where the world saw, again, how the cruelties of humanity had to be prevented in order for the international body to prevent the forming of higher casualty rates and human suffering.
The United Nations was also then formed to promote international cooperation. It was a replacement for the League of Nations, which was ineffective.
On the 10th of January 1920 the League of Nations came into effect after the forty-two nations implicated had signed and ratified the League of Nations covenant. After the First World War broke out in 1914, after the assassination of Duke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The tensions between the countries lead to bloody fights. And so, the two main voices of the war, Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George proposed a main International Body to maintain peace. As they saw how devastating it was for a country and detrimental another war would be on them. Woodrow Wilson was became a strong advocate. He then proposed his fourteen points to put a term to the war.
Then on January 10, 1920 The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the first World War. Nine days later the United States Senate votes against joining the League.
Members meet at an international convention to elect officers, to evaluate the constitution, and to reinforce inter-union ties throughout the exchange of ideas. Elections of officers for international union office are usually held every five years. The five area
The euphoria of victory was short lived and the events from 1945 to 1949 brought about a rapid, transformational change due to the human and economic devastation caused by World War II. Leading the post victory effort was the International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the World Bank, formed in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, with the goal to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman proposed a charter for the formation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). Although the ITO Charter never achieved ratification due to a lack of Congressional approval, the concept of an international trade organization would finally come to fruition in 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The next transformation occurred in 1946 with the formation of the United Nations Security Council. The great powers that were the victors of World War II—Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, and the United States—serve as the body's five permanent members. Finally, in order to solidify military stabilization between the US and Europe and foster economic trade, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949. All of the above organizations formed in the hope that future generations would not have to define victory as complete human and economic
With the end of Great War in 1918, the world struggled to form a structure of peace that would avoid another world conflagration. It was anticipated that World War I would be “the war to end all wars.” President Woodrow Wilson was the primary leader to achieve this goal with his 14 Points making and keeping the peace in the world. Albeit the Treaty of Versailles amalgamated many of Wilson’s points, it struggled to be ratified in the Senate. The defeat of the Treaty of Versailles was largely due to the Senate and popular opposition of the treaty.
Commenced on January 18th 1919, it was the meeting of the victorious allied powers after the signing of the Armistices and declaration of the end of WW1. It involved diplomats of more than 28 countries; however the most dominant in the conference were the British, the French, the Italians and the Americans, dubbed the “Big Four”. The
The Paris of Peace conference was held on January 1919 in Versailles just right outside of Paris. Paris of Peace conference was called to establish reasonable terms to make peace with the countries after World War I. In that conference there was almost thirty nations that were participates. The “Big Four” were there as well, the big four consisted of Great Britain, represented by David Lloyd George, France, represented by George Clemenceau, United States, represented by Woodrow Wilson, and Italy, represented by Vittorio Orlando. David Lloyd George wanted moderate peace he also wants to alienate Germany as a naval threat. Vittorio Orlando wanted the territory was promised by the other countries. George Clemenceau wanted ironclad guarantees against future German military threat and he wanted Germany to pay for all the damages they caused during World War I. Woodrow Wilson wanted peace without Vengeance that were based on his fourteen points. One through five on his points consisted of open covenants, openly arrived at; which means no more secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reduction of weapons. Six through thirteen consisted of self-determination of Europeans and point 14 consisted of the League of Nations. Woodrow Wilson was not successful in his goals, but in 1920 the League on Nations was established; after
After the tragedies of World War II, European leaders have made striving efforts to prevent such a catastrophic event from occurring on their continent again. The best solution seemed to be highly mechanized cooperation among the highest European powers to assure that future conflict, and perhaps war, could not arise between them. If all the states ran themselves in a manner cooperating with their neighbors, conflict could be avoided. To prevent other nations from not cooperating, treaties and institutions would have to be designed for each area of international interest such as trade, communications, security, and so forth. As the century progressed, more organizations, institutions and associations were
Following the second of the World Wars, the League of Nations was replaced by the modern United Nations. This organization's aims were similar to their predecessor's, to maintain harmony through settling border disputes and to offer humanitarian aid wherever necessary, but the UN's charter states further that tolerance and equality is necessary in peace: