League Successful Flashcards
Sucessful
Dealt well w minor powers and humanitarian issues
Un-sucessful
Aggressive powers, self-interested Great Powers
Greek-Bulgarian dispute
Oct 1925, Greek troops invaded Bulgaria after Greek soldiers killed, League condemned Greek action and pressurised to withdraw.
Aaland Islands
1921, Sweden and Finland both claimed islands. Threatened to fight but asked for help. Court of Justice decided Islands to Finland and Sweden accepted.
How many refugees returned
40,000
Refugee Crisis in Turkey
1922, got rid of cholera, smallpox, dysentery
International Labour Organisation
banned poisonous white lead from paint, limited hours children were allowed to work, introduced 48-hour week and 8 hour day.
Health Committee
defeat leprosy, started global campaign to exterminate mosquitoes - malaria and yellow fever dropped.
Social problems
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%