League of nations

Question 1

What were the aims of the league of nations

Answer 1

Stop wars
Improve living and working conditions
Disarmement
Enforce ToV
SIDE

Question 2

Powers of the league

Answer 2

Moral Comdemnation
Economic Sanctions 
Disscussion
Send in the troops
MEDS

Question 3

How many members where their in the security council

Answer 3

5
4 permanant
1 temporary

Question 4

who were the 4 permanant members of the security council

Answer 4

Britian France Italy and Japan

Question 5

why was having permant members bad

Answer 5

it gave some members more power

Question 6

how often did the security council meet

Answer 6

5 times a year and in emergencies

Question 7

Who was in the Assemberly

Answer 7

all the members of the LoN

Question 8

how often did the assembly meet

Answer 8

once a year and all their decisions had to be unanimous. this meant it took the league along time to respond to something happening

Question 9

what is the secretaiat

Answer 9

they kept records of all meetings and prepared reports

Question 10

what was the main failing of the secretariat

Answer 10

they were understaffed

Question 11

What were the Permanant Court of International justice

Answer 11

they settled international disputes and made judgements

Question 12

what was the main failing of the permanant court of international justice

Answer 12

they had no power to enforce their decisions

Question 13

what is collective security

Answer 13

each nations security depends on that of all other nations and peace is universal and indivisible

Question 14

what is community of power

Answer 14

an organisation thatensures individual security by acting with others

Question 15

what is a plebicite

Answer 15

a referendum, when all electors can vote on an important issue

Question 16

what is Partition

Answer 16

AN attemt to resolve political disputes through the drawing of territorial boundaries

Question 17

what is repatriated

Answer 17

the process of returning refuggees or soldiers to their homes following a war

Question 18

Who was LOrd Lytton

Answer 18

Ageing politician who led a british enquiry after a lenghty vist to the far east, including manchuria, reported in october 1932

Question 19

who was Pu Yi

Answer 19

the last empror of china, who in 1934 becam a empror of the puppet japanese state in manchuria

Question 20

how many members did the LON have when it started and how many in 1930

Answer 20

42 members rising to 59 by 1930

Question 21

why wasnt russia in the league

Answer 21

it was excluded for being communist

Question 22

why did the USA not join

Answer 22

they had a policy of isolationism

Question 23

why should have theUSA joined

Answer 23

it was their idea
powerful economy
POwerful country

Question 24

Why didnt america join

Answer 24

lots of americans didnt like the ToV
Thought it would mean sending their troops all over the world
didnt want to damage its economy from econmic sanctions
didnt like the british or french (didnt want to fight for the british empire)

Question 25

How did the league fail to stop wars

Answer 25

Vilna 1920 - poand tok land from russia breaking TOV ignored the leagues orders to stop
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) 65 countries signed the treaty to end war - but they just ignored it

Question 26

how did the league improve lives and jobs

Answer 26

sent expert to austria and hungary
closed down drug companies
set up refugee camps and fed turkish refuggees (1922)
attacked slave traders and freed 20000 slaves
worked to prevent malaria and leprosy

Question 27

how did the league fail to improve lives and jobs

Answer 27

the international labour organisation failed to persuade countries to adopt a 48 hour week

Question 28

why did the disarmement conference fail in 1932

Answer 28

because germany wanted equality with everyone else

Question 29

what was the treaty of mutual assistance and why was it rejected?

Answer 29

it proposed to make a war of aggression illegal and if a country was attacked then all the Lon members should send tropps to defemd it. it failed because britian objected as it didnt want to commit troops over the needs of the empire

Question 30

how did the lon enforce the tov

Answer 30

france invaded the ruhr to force the germans to pay reperations in 1923
in 1921 germany refused to pay reperations sobritian and france invaded them