LEAGUE of NATIONS

Name:League of Nations
Foundation date:10 January 1920
Headquarters:Geneva (Switzerland)
Organization dissolved itself:18 April 1946

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Members of the League of Nations:
10 January 1920  
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil (withdrew 14 June 1926), Canada, Chile (withdrew 14 May 1938), China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia (membership dissolved 15 March 1939), Denmark (withdrew in July 1940), El Salvador (withdrew 11 August 1937), France, Greece, Guatemala (withdrew 26 May 1936), Haiti (withdrew in April 1942), Honduras (withdrew 10 July 1936), India, Italy (withdrew 11 December 1937), Japan (withdrew 27 March 1933), Liberia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua (withdrew 27 June 1936), Norway, Panama, Paraguay (withdrew 23 February 1935), Persia (since 1934 - Iran), Peru (withdrew in April 1939), Poland, Portugal, Rumania (withdrew in July 1940), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (since 1929 - Yugoslavia), Siam (since 1939 - Thailand), South Africa, Spain (withdrew in May 1939), Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela (withdrew 12 July 1938)
Ecuador, Hejaz and the United States were orignal signatory members of the League Covenant 28 June 1919, but did not ratify covenant
15 December 1920   Austria (membership dissolved 31 March 1938)
16 December 1920   Bulgaria, Costa Rica (withdrew 22 January 1925), Finland, Luxemburg
17 December 1920   Albania (membership dissolved 9 April 1939)
22 September 1921  
Estonia (membership dissolved 6 August 1940), Latvia (membership dissolved 5 August 1940), Lithuania (membership dissolved 3 August 1940)
18 September 1922   Hungary (withdrew in April 1939)
10 September 1923   Ireland
28 September 1923   Ethiopia (membership dissolved 9 May 1936)
29 September 1924   Dominican Republic
8 September 1926   Germany (withdrew 21 October 1933)
12 September 1931   Mexico
18 July 1932   Turkey
3 October 1932   Iraq
18 September 1934   Soviet Union (expelled 14 December 1939)
27 September 1934   Afghanistan
28 September 1934   Ecuador
26 May 1937   Egypt




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