International relations-The League Of Nations

Question 0

What did the League of Nations try to do?

Answer 0

Stop war 
Settle quarrels peacefully
Improve working conditions 
Free slaves
Stop drug trafficking

Question 1

what were the aims of the League of Nations

Answer 1

Disarmament
Improve peoples jobs and lives
Enforce the treaty of Versailles
Stop war ( collective security )

Question 2

Why did America not join the league?

Answer 2

did not want to get involved with Europe - deaths of ww1 ( isolationism )
German ancestors
treaty was too harsh

Question 3

Why was the league not powerful enough?

Answer 3

Britain and France were not strong enough
Sanctions could only work if they had a strong country in forcing them
Did not have its own army
Counties ignored the league
Only met once a year

Question 4

What was the Corfu incident?

Answer 4

Mussolini occupied Corfu in 1923 after the murder of an Italian diplomat
wanted financial compensation and an apology
The league said the money should be payed to them not Italy
Mussolini got what he wanted

Question 5

What happened in Vilna 1920 ?

Answer 5

Poland wanted Vilna from Lithuania because polish people were living in Lithuania
Poland got Vilna because France would not stop them

Question 6

What happened in Upper Silesia 1921?

Answer 6

They used plebiscite to let people vote where they wanted to live.
It was half and half
Industrial area went to Germany and rural to Poland

Question 7

What was the economic crisis in Austria and hungry ?

Answer 7

Both faced bankruptcy due to rep orations and WW1

The league took control and made the economy stable

Question 8

What happened in the Aaland Islands 1921?

Answer 8

Island between sweden and Finland both country’s wanted them.
Finland got the islands

Question 9

What happened in Bulgaria 1925?

Answer 9

Greek soldiers were killed on the Greek-Bulgarian border.
The Greeks then invaded Bulgaria
The Greeks were condemned and pulled out

Question 10

What was the Kellogg Briand pact 1928?

Answer 10

65 nations agree not to use force to settle arguments

Question 11

What were some of the humanitarian successes?

Answer 11

Closed 4 Swiss companies selling illegal drugs
Worked to protect leprosy and malaria
Attacked slave owners in Sierra Leone and Burma 200,000 slaves set free

Question 12

What were the health committee successes?

Answer 12

Tackled leprosy, malaria and yellow fever

Focused on campaign to exterminate mosquitoes

Question 13

What were the international Labour organisation successes ?

Answer 13

Stopped addition of lead to paint.
Convinced several countries to adapt an 8 hour day
Worked to end child Labour and rights of women in the work place

Question 14

What successes did they have in commissions for refugees?

Answer 14

Helped 425,000 ex-prisoners of war return home

Refugee camps on Turkey in 1922

Question 15

What was the Great Depression?

Answer 15

1920s-loaned money to Europe to recover
companies overproduced- too little demand
October 1929-stock market crashed-people realised companies were doing bad so sold all shares
Shares became worthless

Question 16

What problems did the Great Depression cause in America ?

Answer 16

1929-stopped lending money and called in its loans
By 1930 nearly 2000 banks collapsed
3 years later over 12 million unemployed

Question 17

How did the Great Depression effect other countries ?

Answer 17

USSR was least effected it had a communist trade system
Within three years over 2.5 million unemployed in Britain
Germany’s unemployment rose over 6 million by 1932

Question 18

How did the Great Depression effect the league?

Answer 18

Caused widespread poverty - people more likely to support extreme leaders
Meant countries did not want to get involved, wanted to focus on problems at home

Question 19

What was the manchurian crisis?

Answer 19

Japan had a growing population of 97 million-needed raw materials
Japan said China sabotaged the Mukden rail way so they had to defend it
They used this to invade Manchuria
They then put a weak leader called Puyi in-charge to control him

Question 20

What was the Lytton report?

Answer 20

The league sent lord Lytton to assess the situation
He produced a report which said Japan was wrong
But the league did nothing

Question 21

How did the manchurian crisis weaken the league ?

Answer 21

Japan refused the Lytton report and withdrew from the league 1933
1933- Japan invaded China’s jehol province
Dictators saw the leagues weakness
Japan signed a treaty with Germany in 1936
1937 started to invade china

Question 22

Why did Mussolini invade Abyssinia ?

Answer 22

been defeated by Abyssinia Italy wanted revenge
Abyssinia was well positioned for Italy to add to her lands in Africa
He had seen Japan get away with the manchurian invasion

Question 23

What happened with the Abyssinia invasion ?

Answer 23

October 1935 Mussolini sent troops to invade
Abyssinian leader appealed to the league
The league imposed economic sanctions
Britain & France didn’t close the Suez Canal so supplies still got through

Question 24

Why was the league unsuccessful ?

Answer 24

Dictatorships became more powerful
Germany openly deified the treaty
Invasions 
Rise of militarism 
Great Depression 
Weak league