KQ2 Flashcards
1
Q
What were Wilson’s aims with the LON?
A
- improve living conditions
- world peace
- encourage trade
- disarmament
2
Q
Why did the USA not join the League of Nations?
A
- stay out of European affairs
- by using trading sanctions, any nations with trading sanctions in Europe can trade with america, boosting their economy
3
Q
How was the LON organised?
A
- assembly (everyone)
- council (selected few)
- commissions (sections)
4
Q
What was the Manchuria crisis?
A
- japan bombed its own railway in china in order to gain compensation as lost money from Great Depression as only exported expensive goods like silk
- league failed to aid china and japan got away with it even though everybody knew Japan was in the wrong
- japan took land from china and then left league
5
Q
Why did the league ultimately fail?
A
- French and British self interest
- absent powers
- threat of hitler
- leagues slow responses
- doomed from start to finish (need whole world to achieve world peace)
6
Q
What are tarrifs
A
Extra cost on importing goods
7
Q
When was the Washington naval conference?
A
1921-1922
8
Q
What were the possible punishments imposed by the League of Nations?
A
- moral condemnation
- economic and trading sanctions
- military force
