- Diplomacy outside Lon

Question 1

When was the Washington Conference

Answer 1

1921

Question 2

What did the Washington Conference involve?

Answer 2

USA, Britain, Japan and France reducing navy sizes

Question 3

How did the Washington conference contribute to peace?

Answer 3

Showed some countries were keen on disarmament

Question 4

How did the washington conference show weaknesses?

Answer 4

Afterwards, nobody wanted to reduce arms

Question 5

When was the Geneva Protocol?

Answer 5

1924

Question 6

What did the Geneva Protocol involve?

Answer 6

Tried to make countries use the League to sort out disputes

Question 7

How did the Geneva Protocol contribute to peace?

Answer 7

Strengthening the LON

Question 8

How did the Geneva Protocol show weaknesses?

Answer 8

Britain refused to sign it after government change

Question 9

When was Dawes Plan?

Answer 9

1924

Question 10

What did the Dawes Plan involve?

Answer 10

Usa plan to lend money to Germany and spread out repayments

Question 11

How did Dawes Plan contribute to peace?

Answer 11

Help Germany recover, increase trade, cooperate

Question 12

How did Dawes Plan show weaknesses?

Answer 12

Benefits wiped out in Great depression

Question 13

When was Young Plan?

Answer 13

1929

Question 14

What did Young plan involve?

Answer 14

reduce German reparations by 75% and give then 59 years to pay

Question 15

How did Young Plan contribute to peace?

Answer 15

Help Germany recover, increase trade, cooperate

Question 16

How did Young Plan show weaknesses?

Answer 16

Benefits wiped out in Great depression

Question 17

When were the Locarno treaties?

Answer 17

1925

Question 18

What did the Locarno treaties involve?

Answer 18

Germany’s western borders set at versailles should be permanent

Question 19

Who proposed the Locarno treaties?

Answer 19

German Foreign Minister, Gustav Stresemann

Question 20

What did the Locarno treaties mean?

Answer 20

Germany were prepared to accept the ToV

Question 21

Why were the Locarno treaties created?

Answer 21

To prove to Europe that they could trust Germany again

Question 22

How did the Locarno treaties contribute to peace?

Answer 22

Germany’s active role proved this, they were moving on from resentment

Question 23

When and why was Germany allowed to join the LON?

Answer 23

1926 - as a result of the Locarno treaties

Question 24

Why did the Locarno treaties show weaknesses?

Answer 24

Nothing was said at the eastern borders which worried Poland and Czechoslovakia

Question 25

Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

Answer 25

1928

Question 26

What did the Kellogg-Briand pact involve?

Answer 26

65 nations agree to not use aggression to settle arguments

Question 27

Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact a weakness?

Answer 27

• Didn’t define aggression (countries could claim they weren’t guilty)
• No one knew what would happen if the pact was broken

Question 28

How did the Kellogg-Briand Pact contribute to peace?

Answer 28

showed countries were committed to the idea of preventing future wars

Question 29

How was the LON weakened by these treaties?

Answer 29

Countries began to make agreements separate from the LON because they didn’t trust it to be effective

Question 30

When was the rapallo treaty?

Answer 30

1922

Question 31

What did the treaty of Rapallo do?

Answer 31

Germany will return land and money lost in treaty of brest- litovsk