League of Nations Flashcards
Members of Council
Britain France Japan Italy 2 temporary members
Aims of League
Discourage aggression
Encourage cooperation
Encourage disarmament
Improve working and living standards
The Council
Small group
4 permanent members - veto powers
2 temporary - 3 year elections
Powers - moral condemnation, economic sanctions, military force
The Assembly
League Parliament
No real power
Voted on league matters
League of Nations Commissions
Mandates Commission - ensured fairness in ruling mandates Refugees Commission Slavery Commission Health Committee ILO
Permanent Court of International Justice
No power at all
No way of enforcing rulings
Vilna 1920
Between Poland and Lithuania after poles capture new Lithuanian capital.
League protested but Poland did not withdraw.
Britain and France didn’t want to send troops in - self interest
Poland kept Vilna
Upper Silesia 1921
Plebiscite over German or Polish ruling
League splits up area based on votes
Safeguards put in place
Aaland Islands 1921
Between Sweden and Finland
League investigated
Ruled that Finland should get it
Both agreed
Corfu 1923
Between Greece and Albania
Italian General killed whilst surveying for League
Mussolini occupies Corfu
League condemns Mussolini and orders compensation from Greece
Mussolini goes behind back to get what he wants
Bulgaria 1925
Greek troops enter Bulgaria after border incident
League condemned Greece
Greece forced to accept ruling
Locarno Agreements
Germany accepted ToV borders
Washington Conference
Britain, France, USA and Japan limit navy sizes
Rapallo Treaty
USSR and Germany reopen diplomatic relations
Dawes Plan
Lent money to Germany to help with reparations
Young Plan
Reduced reparations amount
Kellogg-Briand Pact
65 Nations agree not to go to war
Manchurian Crisis
Japan invade Manchuria after Mukden incident
League waits a year before the Litton report
Tells Japan to give up Manchuria - Japan invade more of China
League can’t do anything because of Japanese trading with USA
Self interest keeps Britain and France at bay
Disarmament Conference
Ambitious proposition by Britain
Hitler leaves conference and then League
Abyssinian Crisis
Dispute on border - Mussolini invades ( angry at failure in 1896)
Haile Selassie appeals - Britain and France play for time
Mussolini rejects proposal for section of Abyssinia - takes over
League holds back on sanctions in case of US disapproval
Suez Canal stays open - Hoare Laval plan to give Mussolini part of Abyssinia fails after leaked to press - both sacked
Hitler invades Rhineland - France and Britain give up on Abyssinia
