Can you name the League of Nations members when the league was dissolved on April 18th, 1946?

Joining Date	Country
September 28th, 1923
September 27th, 1934
December 17th, 1920
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
December 16th, 1920
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
September 29th, 1924
September 28th, 1934
May 26th, 1937
September 22nd, 1921
December 16th, 1920
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)

Joining Date	Country
October 3rd, 1932
September 10th, 1923
September 22nd, 1921
Founding Member (1919)
September 22nd, 1921
December 16th, 1920
September 23rd, 1931
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
July 18th, 1932
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Founding Member (1919)
Expelled December 14th, 1939
Withdrew September 8th, 1926
Withdrew September 18th, 1922
Left April 9th, 1939
Left August 30th, 1942
Expelled for 'aggression against the USSR' 1940
Withdrew January 22nd, 1925
Left March 13th, 1938
Withdrew July 12th, 1938
Withdrew May 1939
Withdrew July 1940
Withdrew June 27th, 1936
Withdrew March 27th, 1933
WIthdrew December 11th, 1937
Withdrew July 10th, 1936
Withdrew April 1942
Withdrew May 26th, 1936
Withdrew August 11th, 1937
Withdrew July 1940
Left March 15th, 1939
Withdrew May 14th, 1938
Withdrew June 14th, 1926
Withdrew February 23rd, 1935
Withdrew January 22nd, 1925

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League of Nations Members Quiz

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	Rayavi:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 04:15 GMT		21 points
	Today I learned that three countries gained independence rather sooner than I thought. Thank you, Sporcle.

	ecco:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 04:25 GMT		54 points
	I found myself naming more countries that withdrew from the League than were members.

	pfrijiritr:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 04:26 GMT		2 points
	September is evidently quite a popular month for joining.

	ahamilton:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 04:47 GMT		23 points
	Why is the current name in brackets for Ethiopia but not for Iran or Thailand?

	iamajellydonut:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 04:52 GMT		11 points
	And this is why the League of Nations failed- Everyone kept leaving.

	DougButcher:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 05:41 GMT		3 points
	How was India an independent nation in 1919?

	BamaRainbow:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 06:29 GMT		22 points
	@DougButcher: India (like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and even South Africa) wasn't independent; however, the League of Nations provided separate membership for those British Dominions. Under the Covenant of the League of Nations Article I is this line, "Any fully self-governing State, Dominion or Colony not named in the Annex may become a Member of the League if its admission is agreed to by two-thirds of the Assembly . . . ."

	Akhoya:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 06:31 GMT		26 points
	Is it safe to say the League went through... withdrawal?

	abn2189:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 07:28 GMT		6 points
	Btw, just to let you know, you have Costa Rica listed twice in the withdrawal list.

	bierhoff64:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 09:15 GMT		8 points
	i managed to get 21 extras and only 19 correct - not my day

	Tankman182:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 11:26 GMT		9 points
	Um mate you disagree with your source, seems you're using wiki. In addition, the Wikipedia source appears to be incorrect. There's a garbage reference to Finland being expelled, which makes no sense at all, since there's no other supporting evidence. Ditto for Denmark, Luxembourg and Albania, which were all invaded, but don't seem to have withdrawn (not sure if Nazi coercion counts here, also given the independent groups - e.g. Free French - retained membership for their countries. Further to that, there's a LoN document dated 1944 which has all these countries as members. I'm going to have that Wiki article fixed now. tl;dr - Finland should be on the list, and Denmark, Albania, and Luxembourg probably should be there as well, according to the source.

	Extinctanimals22:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 12:27 GMT		9 points
	I was shocked by the lack of micronations. San Marino, Monaco and Andorra were you guys just hiding in your tiny countries terrified by the big guys working together?

	geogeorge:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 13:15 GMT		13 points
	Holy bonus answers!

	TristanM:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 16:51 GMT		6 points
	Germany JOINED in September 1926. It withdrew under Hitler in 1933.

	QuintFan:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 17:05 GMT		4 points
	I never would have guessed Switzerland in a million years.

	OdysseusKelly:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 17:27 GMT		13 points
	@Tankman I concur on Finland. Wikipedia cites F. S. Northedge's The League of Nations: Its Life and Times as a source to show that Russia was ejected for aggression against Finland, but not vice versa.

	xolkan:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 17:29 GMT		3 points
	d'oh, never would've guessed Abyssinia even though typing Ethiopia would probably work.

	xolkan:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT		6 points
	ya your source for this says Germany joined in 1926 and withdrew in 1933.

	Cecispanda:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 20:46 GMT		4 points
	Just curious as to what the difference between "withdrew" and "left" is. Can someone clear that up?

	Preguntero:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 21:02 GMT		3 points
	why did so many latin american countries leave?

	Zak6009:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 21:02 GMT		1 point
	Ethiopia probably would have worked, but that didn't help the fact that a country coming before Afghanistan in alph order would throw me off. Also, why can't Serbia/Kosovo/Montenegro be accepted for Yugoslavia? We have other current names...

	Statetravelr:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 21:54 GMT		2 points
	@tankman182, Albania, Denmark, and Luxembourg are included as add-ons.

	tstenz:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 22:13 GMT		8 points
	@Zak6009: You're probably expecting this response, but Yugoslavia consists of multiple countries, while the others are simply another name for a present-day country. Using that logic, guessing Azerbaijan should give you U.S.S.R., which would be more than a bit of a stretch.

	Blackbelt737:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 22:43 GMT		5 points
	I always thought the U.S. was a part of the league considering Woodrow Wilson was one of the original founders, I learned something today!

	AtomicIce:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 22:52 GMT		0 points
	A number of issues: 1)you have the joining date instead of the leaving date listed for both Germany and Hungary 2)Peru is not listed at all 3) Costa Rica is listed twice

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	TJL:	Feb 12th, 2012 at 02:10 GMT		6 points
	I was surprised by the lack of Newfoundland, but apparently it was the only British Dominion that didn't seek a separate membership. Weird.

	Tankman182:	Feb 12th, 2012 at 11:56 GMT		2 points
	@Statetravelr: doesn't count since the information is wrong, all the withdrawn countries were bonuses, and those three shouldn't be there if they didn't withdraw - they should be actual answers

	RichardPowell:	Feb 12th, 2012 at 13:27 GMT		7 points
	The Soviet Union was indeed expelled in 1939 for attacking Finland, at the last meeting of the League of Nations other than that where it was dissolved. Your source for the assertion that Finland was expelled the following year for aggression against the USSR is unclear - it's not mentioned in the site purportedly used as the basis for the quiz. Encyclopedia Britannica has Finland listed as a member of the LoN at its dissolution. A correction would seem to be in order.

	aznemesis:	Feb 13th, 2012 at 03:47 GMT		2 points
	@Blackbelt737: Wilson could never get Congress to officially join the LoN. The U.S. was very much an isolationist country at the time. It was all the way up to WWII, which is why many claim that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor ahead of time, but let it happen to force the U.S. into the war. That's not a proven fact, but it did turn out to be the only reason the U.S. officially entered WWII. Prior to WWII, the U.S. people were very much against things that involved them in the business of Europe. It wasn't until after the war that the U.S. people became publicly fond of the push for empire.

	m0ckers:	Feb 13th, 2012 at 11:47 GMT		4 points
	Wilson and the American delegation were the ones that pushed for the formation of the League. Ironic really that he couldn't get Congress to sign off on it and America become the only major nation never to join. Still, it was a largely pointless talking shop that makes the UN look like a highly competent well drilled crack crisis tackling unit.

	Juvo415:	Feb 14th, 2012 at 19:25 GMT		4 points
	Finalnd?

	Tankman182:	Feb 15th, 2012 at 01:26 GMT		3 points
	Nice to see it fixed, but Albania, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg and a duplicate Costa Rica need to be removed from the bonuses (also put in mistake report)