League of Nations Questions

1. Why was the League of Nations set up in 1919?

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2. What Treaty set up the League of Nations
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3. What were the four aims of the League of Nations?
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4. What happened when Wilson went back home to America?
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5. Why did the Americans not want to join the League of Nations?
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6. How many countries joined the League of Nations in 1919?
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7. How many members did the League have in the 1930s?
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8. Name three powerful countries, which were not members of the League.
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9. Why was Russia not a member of the League?
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10. Why was Germany not a member of the League?
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11. Who were the four main members of the League?
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12. What four powers did the League have to enforce its decisions? Explain them.
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13. What did the League NOT have which made it hard for it to enforce its decisions?
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14. What were the eight main parts of the Leagues organisation?
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15. How many times a year did the Leagues Assembly meet?
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16. How many times a year did the Council meet?
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17. What did the Court of International Justice do?
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18. What did the Health Committee of the League do?
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19. What did the Slavery Committee of the League do?
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20. What did the Refugee Committee of the League do?
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21. What was the job of the Secretariat?
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22. Which two countries were involved in the Corfu dispute of 1923?
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23. Who was the leader of Italy?
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24. Which two countries were involved in the Bulgaria incident of 1925?
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25. How many prisoners of war did the League get home?
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26. In which country did the League set up a refugee camp?
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27. Which two diseases did the League try to destroy?
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28. How did the League work against the spread of illegal drugs?
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29. How many slaves did the League set free?
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30. Which two countries did the League send economics experts to?
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31. What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact promise in 1928?
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32. How did Britain and France make Germany pay reparations in 1921?
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33. What did the League try to arrange at its disarmament conference?
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34. Why did the Disarmament Conference of 1931 fail?
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35. Which country broke the Treaty of Versailles by attacking Russia in 1920?
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36. What did the Leagues International Labour Organisation try to do?
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37. Which country invaded Manchuria in 1931?
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38. What was the economic depression of the 1930s?
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39. Why didnt France and Britain try to force Japan to leave Manchuria?
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40. Which country did Italy invade in 1935?
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41. What agreement did Britain and France secretly make with Italy?
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42. List seven reasons the League failed.
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Other Vital Info

FOUR AIMS OF THE LEAGUE [memory word: SIDE]
1. Stop war (Article 10 of the Covenant = collective security)
2. Improve people's lives and Jobs Encourage co-operation in trade/ Economic and social agencies.
3. Disarmament
4. Enforce the Treaty of Versailles
MEMBERSHIP OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
1. 42 countries joined at the start. By the 1930s this had risen to 60.
2. May 1920, the US Senate voted against Versailles.
3. The USSR did not join the League. In 1919 it set up the Comintern to cause revolution.
4. Germany was not allowed to join the League as a punishment for causing WWI.
5. The leading members were Britain and France, helped by Japan and Italy.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE LEAGUE [memory word: SCACHIRMS]
Secretariat: supposed to co-ordinate the different functions of the League/ too few secretaries to do the
work - slow and inefficient
Council: met 4-5 times a year/ 5 permanent members - Br, Fr, It, Jap & Ger - with a veto.
Assembly: the Leagues main meeting, held once a year/ decisions only by unanimous vote
+ the Committees: Court of international justice/ Health committee/ International labour organization/
Refugees committee/ Mandates commission/ Slavery commission
ALSO Conference of ambassadors (not really part of the League's organisation).
THREE STRENGTHS OF THE LEAGUE [memory Word: SUM]
1. Set up by the Treaty of Versailles
2. Universal membership, all of which had signed the Covenant promising to support the League.
3. Means of Influence Covenant (26 promises which every member agreed to follow)/ Moral
condemnation (public opinion)/ Arbitration (act as a referee)/ Sanctions (refuse to trade)/ Military
Force (send an army)/ Community of Power (acting together).
SIX SUCCESSES OF THE LEAGUE IN THE 1920s [memory word: SAMBOK]
1. Silesia, 1921 Germany and Poland agreed to partition after a plebiscite.
2. Aaland Islands, 1921 said the islands should belong to Finland; Sweden and Finland agreed.
3. Mosul, 1924 the Turks demanded Mosul, Iraq. The League supported Iraq; Turkey agreed.
4. Bulgaria, 1925 Greece invaded Bulgaria, but withdrew when Bulgaria appealed to the League.
5. Other: 400,000 Prisoners of War repatriated/ Turkish refugee camps (1922)/ Leprosy/ Drugs
companies closed down/ Attacked slave owners in Sierra Leone and Burma/ Economic advice to
Austria and Hungary
6. Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 signed by 23 nations and supported by 65, to outlaw war.
SIX FAILURES OF THE LEAGUE IN THE 1920s [memory word: VIMCOD]
1. Vilna, 1920 Poland refused the League orders to withdraw from Vilna.
2. Invasion of the Ruhr, 1923 by France; the League was not even consulted, and Britain disagreed.
3. Memel, 1923 The League told Lithuania to leave, but the Conference of Ambassadors agreed.
4. Corfu, 1923 General Tellini murdered, so Italy occupied Corfu. The Conference of Ambassadors
overruled the Leagues order to Mussolini to leave forced Greece to pay compensation to Italy.
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5. Other Treaties: Washington , 1921/ Dawes Plan, 1924/ Locarno Pact, 1925/ The Geneva Protocol,
1924 (to support the League of Nations) failed because Britain refused to sign it
6. Disarmament Britain objected to the 1923 conference/ 1932-1934 conference was wrecked when
Hitler demanded parity with France.
STUDY THE DEPRESSION SLIDESHOW NOTES AND THE STOCK MARKET CRASH NOTES

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