Answer: Afghanistan, Andorra, Estonia, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Tibet, Vatican City, and Yemen were all neutral during the war.
The League of Nations was an international organization established in 1920, aimed at providing collective security in the international community to maintain world peace.
Further details about the League of Nations:
The United States never joined the League of Nations, in spite of the fact that an organization such as the League of Nations was the signature idea of US President Woodrow Wilson. He had laid out 14 Points for establishing and maintaining world peace following the Great War (World War I). Point #14 was the establishment of an international peacekeeping association. The Treaty of Versailles adopted that idea, but back home in the United States, there was not support for involving America in any association that could diminish US sovereignty over its own affairs or involve the US again in wars beyond those pertinent to the United States' own national security. The lack of involvement by the world's fastest-growing superpower, the United States, hampered its effectiveness.
The League of Nations had set out clear goals for what it intended to do. The main aims of the League were disarmament across nations, preventing war through collective security of the international community, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, and improving welfare of people around the globe. But it proved unable to meet those goals. The United Nations today has similar goals, and has been more effective in its efforts -- though there are still plenty of people who criticize the UN's effectiveness.
-Civil liberties is defined as the basic rights guaranteed to individual citizens by law
-During world war 1 individuals rights were being taken away by the government
-People who opposed the war were often sent to jail or lost their jobs
-Rights like freedom of speech and the right to protest were being suppressed Civil liberties Events that had a major effect Causes -government was trying to limit the
opposition to the war
-when propaganda wasn't enough they
<span>started forcing people to support the </span>
<span>allied powers </span>
<span>-president Woodrow Wilson said "gravest threats against our national peace and safety have been uttered within our own borders." The Espionage Act, passed in </span>
<span>June 1917, provided penalties </span>
<span>of 20 years imprisonment and </span>
<span>fines up to $10,000 for those </span>
<span>convicted of interfering with </span>
<span>military recruitment. The sedition act of 1918 made </span>
<span>it a crime to disrupt military </span>
<span>recruiting or enlistments, to </span>
<span>encourage support for Germany </span>
<span>and its allies or disrespect for </span>
American war efforts. Schenck vs. United States
-Charles Schenck was the Secretary
of the Socialist Party of America and
<span>responsible for printing, distributing, </span>
and mailing to prospective draftees
during WWI opposing the war
<span>-convicted of violating the Espionage Act </span>
-appealed to the Supreme Court saying their
decision violated his first amendment rights
-court held that Schenck's conviction was constitutional
<span>-the first amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination </span>
-"clear and present danger"
-Schenck spent 6 months in prison Activists Eugene V. Debs
<span>*an American Labor and </span>
political leader, and 5 time
Socialist Party of America Candidate
for the American presidency
<span>*made an anti-war speech in Canton, </span>
Ohio protesting involvement in WWI
*arrested under Espionage act
<span>*sentenced to serve 10 yrs in prison and </span>
<span>disenfranchised for life Upton Sinclair</span>
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For one the bill of rights were before the U.S Constitution, the leaders at the time did not believe that there were enough rights unto the people. Therefore They incorporated the bill of rights into the U.S Constitution to guarantee the protection of the people from the complete control of the Strong Central Government
