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On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania and killed 1,128 people including 128 Americans. The disaster immediately caused tension in relations between Germany and the neutral United States, fueled anti-German sentiment and set off a chain of events that eventually led to the United States entering World War I.

The first world war which took place during 1914-1918 and in which United States lately played a key role, emerged as the victor. Aftermath of first world war, Britain lost the super power status and United States emerged as the Super power of the world. US president Woodrow Wilson also promoted liberal and democratic values which also put a soft power influence on the world.

The Sarajevo Incident refers to the series of Events encompassing the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife during a state visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. He and his wife, Sophie was shot down by a Serbian nationalist while passing through the streets in a motorcade on 28 June 1914, earlier that morning another Serbian nationalist threw a bomb on the car of Archduke while exploded below another Car. Austria and Hungary in alliance with Germany declared war on Serbia. This led to the First world war in successive events.

An international organization which was created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes was known as League of Nations. It was headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It stopped border disputes turning into wars. It solved the border dispute between Iraq and Turkey. Turkey was claiming Mosul situated in Iraq as its own part. But when the League rejected Turkey’s claim to Mosul, Turkey agreed.

The League of Nations (LON) was founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing war through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.

Following are the objective of League of Nations-:

• To establish world peace and security.
  
• To establish friendly and cooperative relations between the nations.
  
• To solve the international issues with peace avoiding the wars.
  
• Obeying the International Law.
  

The assassination of the royal representative of Austria was an incentive for the nation to smother Serbia. Austria imposed unacceptable demands on Serbia. Serbia was given only 48 hours to fulfill those demands. At that time Russia supported and gave military help to Serbia. After getting support from Russia, Serbia denied the demands of Austria as a result the international conflict of the First World War got under way and Austria declared war against Serbia on 28th July 1914.

Among the international workers unions of the League of Nations, there were International workers organization, International Intellectual and Educational Organization, Economic Committee, etc. League of Nations also established a committee to look after the administration of the defeated nations in the First World War.

A political revolution took place in Turkey in 1908. Taking full advantage of this situation, Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, the regions of Balkan, Bulgeria too declared itself as an independent country.