League of Nations Flashcards
4 main aims of LON:
disarmament
preventing future war
improve living and working conditions
international cooperation
The assembly:
strengths and weaknesses
strengths: democratic
weaknesses. only met once a year, decisions had to be unanimous.
summary assembly:
It was the league's parliament to which each country sent representative and would vote on: new member in league tempoary members to council budget of league other ideas put forward by council
The council:
strengths and weaknesses
strengths: democratic, avoided conflict through discussion
weaknesses: met 5 times a year
summary council:
small group shich included
-permanent members: france, britain, italy and japan;
-temporary mambers elected by asembly for 3 years
it function was to avoid conflict through discussion.
to stop agrssive countries it used: moral condemnation, economis sanctions, military force.
The international labour organisation:
strengths and weaknesses
strengths: aim was to improve conditions
weaknesses: only met once a year.
summary ILO:
brought together employers, governments and workers representative once a year to improve conditions of working people throuhout the world.
The secretariat:
strength and weaknesses
weaknesses: too much work for few people, overambitious.
summary secretariat:
was civil service which kept records of meetings and prepared reports for agencies of LON.
The permanent court of international justice:
strength and weaknesses
strength: settling international disputes
weaknesses: overambitious
summary PCIJ:
was supposed to play key role in league’s peaceful settlement of international disputes. judges provided by member countries heard cases grought to the by members.
The mandates commission:
strength and weaknesses
strength: strengt ( es un si un strength)
weaknesses: can be seen as weakness after what happens next.
summary mandates commmission:
ensured that britain and france administered german olonies in interests of inhabitants, not their own.
slavery commission:
strength and weaknesses
summary
strength: strength
weakness: overambitious
worked to abolish slavery through out the world
The health commitee:
strength and weaknesses
summary
strength: strength
weakness: overambitious
attempted deal with dangerous diseasesand educate people about health and sanitation
The refugee commitee:
strength and weaknesses
summary
strength: strength
weakness: overambitious
helped return refugees to original home, after en WW1
strengths of LON:
4
- it was democtatic
- it was popular: people were hopeful
- trying to improve living and working conditions
- council met at times of crisis therefore could respod quickly
weaknesses structure LON:
8
-aims overambitious
-no army to enforce decisions
-assembly met ince a year
-decisions had to be unanimous.
-PCIJ had no way to make sure countrie sfollowed rulings
- secretariat too small to handle workload
-france and britain usually guided policy had own agendas
trade sanction damaged countries of LON as well as agressor country.
weaknesses membership LON:
2
-Germany, Russia and USA not members= not league of all nations ( and USA would add more weight to trade sanctions)
-Britain and France usually guided policy, had no resources to replace USA.
(britain had priorities: protect empire and increase trade)
(france as LON didnt have army: cocerned about germany)
League disputes
in 1920’s
summary Vilna 1920
dispute between poland and lithuania. P took control vilns. L wnet LON who protested to P but nothing happened. Britein and france were not prepared to act.
summary Upper Silesia 1921
LON wit peaceful plebescite divided region between germany and poland which both accapted.
summary Aaland Islands 1921
finland and sweeden dispute. both threatened war over the iskands but S accpeted LON rulingof island belonging to F.
summary Corfu 1923
In border between albania and greece italian general and team were killed so Mussolini blamed greece and bombarded islan corfu. greece appealed to leagu for help which the council who was ready for that situation acted swiftly. it condemned italy Mussolini’s actions and made maybe greece pay compensation. But Mussoliny still took matter to conference of embassador which changed ruling to greece appologising and paying compensations. at firts as mussolini wasnt allowed to go to conference of ambassadors it threatened to leave the league. and brotein and france didnt do anything because they werent ready.
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