LoN Flashcards
What did the assembly do?
- They discussed things
- They met once a year
- All members of the countries made one vote
- Decisions had to be unanimous
What was the permanent court of justice?
- 15 judges met at The Hague in Netherlands
- Could not make countries obey its decisions
- Settled international disputes
What were the LoN Special Commissions?
- Refugees
- Women
- Mandates
- Leprosy
- Transit and communications
- Minorities
- Slavery
- Drug addiction
- Health
- Created to address specific issues, including health, slavery, refugees and the oversight of mandates
What was the International Labour Organisations?
- Tried to get countries to make improvements
- Discussed working conditions
What did the secretariat do?
- Civil service - did the paperwork and kept records
- Carried out the League’s decisions
What was the council?
- Committee that took major decisions
- Supervised the special commissions
- Had 4 permanent members: Britain, France, Italy and Japan
- Made important decisions
- Decisions had to be unanimous
What was concession?
Something granted in response to demands
State the successes that the LoN had:
- Disarmament and prevention of war
- Discourage aggression
- Collective security
- International cooperation
- Improving living conditions
How far was the absence of the USA responsible for the failure of the League in the 1920’s?
Absence of USA responsible:
- Lack of economic and political assistance
- Army to impose sanctions, lack of USA’s military assistance
Other factors responsible:
- Britain and France - self interests
- Structure of LoN
- Council and Veto
- Expectations too high and differences of opinion
What happened in Vilna, 1920?
30% of Vilna’s population were polish and only 2% were actual Lithuanians. Poland took over Vilna and Lithuania asked the LoN to kick Poland out of Lithuania but Poland refused
What was the Corfu Crisis, 1923?
Mussolini ignores the leagues orders to pull out Corfu, and made Greece pay money to Italy
What was the Geneva Protocol, 1924?
Draft treaty to ensure collective security in Europe. The French enthusiastically supported the protocol, but it failed after it was rejected by the British.
How did LoN work for a better world?
- Refugees
- Working conditions
- Health
- Social problems
- Transport
State the successes and failures for refugees when working for a better world:
- Successful:
- Helps Turkish refugees in 1922 after problems of treaty of sevres
- 400k returned to their homes
- Nansen passport to help refugees
- Failures:
- Doesn’t have enough money to continue work
- Under-Financed in the late 1920-1930s
State the successes and failures of working conditions when working for a better world:
- Successful:
- Limited working hours for children
- ILO
- Banned toxic work substances= White lead paint
- Prevented work related deaths and abolish forced labour= Tanganyika railway 50% to 4%
- Failures:
- Tried to introduce 4 to 8 hour week but some countries refused
- under-financed
