What if the League of Nations still existed?

It does, it's called the United Nations.

Now if the original still existed, there would be more unilateral actions taking place, also the league would have to stay relevant through the war which discredited it as an institution in its prior form.

Also does the United States and other major powers join/rejoin said organization?
 
Only way for surviving LoN might be avoiding WW2. So things depend about exact POD. United States probably join to LoN on some point, probably on 50's or 60's.'

If Japan, Germany and Italy still leave LoN they might return soon after them has became democracies again.
 
The league of nations was basically a joke by 1936, after the Second Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Any change after that date that keeps it alive just means it keeps being a joke.

If, in 1920, the US voted to join, and the league had the power to do more than complain, possibly by making its presence felt on Japan after the invasion of Manchuria (1931), backed up by at least a threat of force, Hitler will probably be a bit more cautious (and may not even get in to power) - so it is quite likely ww2 as we know it doesn't occur.

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However, both LoN as well as UN suffered and suffer a major flaw : no means to enforce their resolutions.
 
The current UN is kind of a "successor non state" to the League with somewhat more muscle. What has made the UN somewhat more effective than the league is nuclear weapons which moved many major power confrontations from battlefields to diplomatic arena.
 
However, both LoN as well as UN suffered and suffer a major flaw : no means to enforce their resolutions.

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If in 1945, instead of forming a new United Nations, the Allies had decided on reviving a modified League of Nations, the difference would be negligible--except that it would be a bit harder to get the US Senate to ratify.

But it's really hard to see this happening, even if the real differences between the modified League and the OTL UN would be microscopic. For one thing, the USSR would not approve the idea--she still resented having been kicked out of the League. For another, the whole image of failure associated with the League made an at least nominally new organization necessary. As early as 1941, FDR had rejected Churchill's call to revive the League, asking the Prime Minister to sign a more explicit pledge to "create a wider and permanent system of general security." https://books.google.com/books?id=bCzeCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT53
 
Only way for surviving LoN might be avoiding WW2. So things depend about exact POD. United States probably join to LoN on some point, probably on 50's or 60's.'

If Japan, Germany and Italy still leave LoN they might return soon after them has became democracies again.

The league of nations was basically a joke by 1936, after the Second Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Any change after that date that keeps it alive just means it keeps being a joke.

If, in 1920, the US voted to join, and the league had the power to do more than complain, possibly by making its presence felt on Japan after the invasion of Manchuria (1931), backed up by at least a threat of force, Hitler will probably be a bit more cautious (and may not even get in to power) - so it is quite likely ww2 as we know it doesn't occur.

- BNC

Ja. This.
No PoD after the start of WWII could possibly save it.
 
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