Failures Of The League 1920's Flashcards
What was the biggest failure of the league?
The biggest failure of the league was America not joining.
What happened in Vilna 1920 ?
Also how did the league fail?
What was the result?
The polish army took over Vilna the capital of Lithuania.
The Lithuanians asked the league to sort it out.
The poles asked France to use their veto in the council.(little entente)
Britain didn’t want to send troops to push the polish army out.
The result was that the poles kept Vilna.
What happened in Corfu in 1923?
What did the Italians want?
What was Italy’s reaction when the league interfered?
Italian surveyors were shot by Greek peasants on the Greek/Albanian border.
Italy demanded huge compensation from the Greeks.
The Greeks refused.
The league sided with the Greeks.
Italy bombed and captured Corfu.
Italy used its veto to stop any more interference from the league.
What happened in the Memel in 1923?
Why didn’t Germany get any help from the league?
What was the result?
This was part of Germany under the treaty of Versailles but in 1923 the Lithuanians occupied it.
Th Germans complained but were not part of the league.
France and GB remembered the Lithuanians losing Vilna to the poles and thought this would even things out.
Lithuanian got to keep the Memel.
What happened in the Ruhr in 1923?
What plan helped the German economy?
Germany didn’t pay reparations so France invaded the Ruhr and used its industry to gain money.
Germany wasn’t a member of the league so couldn’t turn to the league.
France used its veto.
Germany’s economy collapsed which was solved by the Dawes plan.
What is a common thing used through the failure in the league?
There was always a veto from one of the council members.
