PEACEKEEPING Flashcards
Terms of ToV
Territory Reparations Armaments War Guilt Clause League Of Nations
Name The Big Three
Lloyd-George BRITAIN
Wilson USA
Clemenceau FRANCE
5 Territory changes
Alsace-Lorraine back to France Rhineland-Demilitarised Saar-France Anschluss-Banned Danzig-Poland
Reaction to treaty (GERMAN)
DIKTAT
Reparations details
£6.6 billion to Allies mainly France
Armaments
Army-100,000 men Conscription-BANNED Air Force-NONE Navy-6 battle ships 0 submarines Rhineland-Demilitarised
War Guilt Clause
Article 231-Germany had to accept all blame for the war
Structure of The League
Covenant-26 articles USA NEVER JOINED EXCLUSION OF GERMANY & USSR Permanent court of Justice RIGHT TO VETO to everyone
Members of the League
Britain
France
Japan
Italy
5 Negatives of League of Nations
No standing Army Assembly met once a year Any country could Veto USA, USSR, GERMANY did not join Countries could leave whenever
Manchurian Crisis
~Japan and USA couldn’t trade due to Wall Street Crash
~Japan needed raw materials+population space
~Bomb went off on South Manchurian railway (owned by Japan)
INVASION
~League orders Lord Lytton to write a report (MORAL CONDEMNATION)
1 YEAR PASSES
~Report published and ignored
JAPAN LEAVES LEAGUE
LEAGUE’S FIRST FAILURE
Abyssinian Crisis
~Mussolini comes to power (1923) promise of Roman empire’s return
~Stresa Pact signed by Britain, France & Italy(1935)
~Collective Security discussed by LoV
~500,000 men launched into Ethiopia due to ‘Border Incident’
~Economic Sanctions imposed on Italy(1935)
~Suez Canal not closed by Britain
~Hoare-Laval Pact signed(1935)+leaked
~May 1936 Italian troops reach Capital of Ethiopia