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Student Archival Essays
- Australia and the Interwar Internationalism Movement
- In her study of the League of Nations Union in Britain, Helen McCarthy argues that “the League of Nations inspired a rich and participatory culture of political unrest, popular education and civic ritual." Was the same true in Australia?
- Interwar Internationalism: Refugees
- A Broad Unity for Peace: An historical examination of the International Peace Campaign’s Australian Peace Congress, 16th – 19th September, 1937
- Interwar Feminism in Australia and the League of Nations
- What were the primary factors in the failure of the League of Nations Union in Australia to create what Helen McCarthy terms a ‘rich and participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual’?
- Analyze how the ‘Myth of Collective Security’ was cultivated and evolved in Britain, compared to Australia by the LNU
- The League in Nations: the Effects of Identity
- Paths to Peace: A comparison of the voluntary peace groups in Britain and Australia
- The League of Nations: Lessons and Legacy
United States
Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924)
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United states from 1913 – 1921. In January 1918 President Wilson went before congress to present his 14-point speech, which represented a blueprint for future world peace.[1] Wilson played an important role in the creation of the League, so far as he formulated an outline of the Covenant, however the United States congress rejected the idea of the League and consequently weakened its character. [2]
[1] Frank Friedel and Hugh Sidey, “Woodrow Wilson”, Presidential Biographies, White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/woodrowwilson, accessed online 2 October 2015.
[2] ‘The Covenant of the League of Nations’, in The Aims and Organisation of the League of Nations (Geneva: Secretariat of the League of Nations, 1929), 14.