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    4 days ago

    The League Of Nations and the UN briefly existed at the same time in 1945-1946.

    The League Of Nations had primarily been a European organization which the US never joined. It had also been ineffective at doing much of anything about conflicts in the 1930s, and during WW2 it continued to exist but was basically just in stasis. The UN was conceptualized during WW2 as a beefed up version of the League to accomplish the same general goal of international stability for a post-WW2 world. The UN included the US and USSR as permanent members, the two global superpowers. In the changed dynamic of the post-WW2 world, that gave it a much more global sort of reach than the League.

    While the League Of Nations squabbled uselessly and failed to prevent wars and atrocities the UN on the other hand