The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. After some notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the onset of the Second World War showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war. The League lasted for 26 years; the United Nations (UN) replaced it after the end of the Second World War and inherited several agencies and organizations founded by the League.
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