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Question 1

In what ways could the League attempt to preserve world peace?

Answer 1

Verbal Sanctions: The League would start off y telling the aggressor to stop their displeasing actions

Economic Sanctions: If the aggressor failed to comply to the League’s instructions, the League could order all members to stop trade with the aggressor.

Physical Sanctions: If the aggressor still didn’t stop, the League would call upon their Collective Security army to forcefully stop the aggressor.

Question 2

Why did some major powers such as the USA and the USSR not joing the League when it was set up in 1920?

Answer 2

USA: went back to an isolationist foreigh policy and refused to joing the League, this was a factor in why the League failed

USSR: Prohibited from joining due to the communist government assassinating the Tsar and his family, making them an international outcast

Question 3

What were the main weaknesses in the structure and organisation of the League?

Answer 3

• USA never joined the league
• Defeated nations, like Germany, were disallowed from the League
• Britain and France were the dominant powers
• Without Germany and USSR, there were large gaps in the League’s authority
• No armed forces
• Too slow to act, everything had to be unanimous
• Too idealistic
• All states had equal voting rights

Question 4

How was the League successful in the 1920s?

Answer 4

Teschan (1920): Poland and Czechoslovakia fought over this area, in 1920 the League split the land between the two countries

Bulgaria (1925): Greece invaded Bulgaria, who did not fight back, but appealed to the League. The League ordered Greece to withdraw, which it did.

Question 5

How was the League unsuccessful in the 1920s?

Answer 5

Invasion of the Ruhr (1923): France invaded the Ruhr when the Germans did not pay reparations; the League was not even consulted.

Corfu (1923): An Italian general named Tellini was murdered in Greece, so Italy occupied Corfu. Greece appealed to the League for help, which ordered Mussolini to leave – but the Conference of Ambassadors overruled the League and forced Greece to pay compensation to Italy.

Question 6

How did the Great Depression make the work of the League more difficult?

Answer 6

First of all, because of the great depression, countries like Japan and Italy wanted to expand their empires so as to get hold of new economies,

so Japan invaded Manchuria in china which is a rich region, thus it would improve the falling economy.

gion, thus it would improve the falling economy. But the League of Nations was not able to impose economic sanctions over Japan, because
1. The USA, Japan’s main trading partner would keep trading with Japan.
2. Non of the members of the League wanted to stop trading because it would worsen the bad economy.

This was also the case in the Abyssinian Crisis, Which have lead to the serious underestimation of the League, thus the League lost it’s authority which eventually lead to it’s downfall in 1940 and the second World War

Question 7

Why was the League unable to stop both the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia?

Answer 7

WAS DUMB

Weak: Sanctions did not work. It had no army

America: strongest nation in the world never joined; UK and France were not strong enough

Structure: took ages to do anything; members didn’t agree, but decisions had to be unanimous

Depression: countries needed land and power; they were worried about themselves, not about world peace

Unsuccessful: the more the League failed, the less people trusted it

Members: Italy and Japan defied and left the League, France and Britain betrayed it

Bullies: successful with smaller and weaker countries, however the more powerful countries were too strong for the league to stop them