League Successful Flashcards

1
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Sucessful

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Dealt well w minor powers and humanitarian issues

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Un-sucessful

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Aggressive powers, self-interested Great Powers

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Greek-Bulgarian dispute

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Oct 1925, Greek troops invaded Bulgaria after Greek soldiers killed, League condemned Greek action and pressurised to withdraw.

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Aaland Islands

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1921, Sweden and Finland both claimed islands. Threatened to fight but asked for help. Court of Justice decided Islands to Finland and Sweden accepted.

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5
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How many refugees returned

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40,000

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6
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Refugee Crisis in Turkey

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1922, got rid of cholera, smallpox, dysentery

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International Labour Organisation

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banned poisonous white lead from paint, limited hours children were allowed to work, introduced 48-hour week and 8 hour day.

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Health Committee

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defeat leprosy, started global campaign to exterminate mosquitoes - malaria and yellow fever dropped.

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Social problems

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blacklisted four large German, Dutch, French, Swiss companies in drug trade, freed 200,000 slaves in Sierra-Leone, challenged use of forced labour on Tanganyika railway in Africa, death rate from 50% to 4%

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