success and failures of LON Flashcards
war between Russia and Poland incident?
1920, Poland invaded land held by Russians
-LON did nothing bc scared of communist Russia
success of Memel for LON
- memel-port- Lithuania
- Lithuania believed it should be theirs
- TOV put Memel under control of of League
- 1923 Lithuanians invaded port
- League helped and gave the area surrounding Memel to Lithuania- port- international zone
Vilna incident?
-Vilna taken over by Russia
- Vilna was capital city of Lithuania
- 30% of population was from Poland so 1920 Poles seized Vilna
- Lithuania asked LON for help
- LON did nothing to help
when was the Vilna conflict
1920
when was the war between Russia and Poland conflict
1920-1921
what is a plebiscite
a vote on a special issue
success of Aaland Island for LON
- conflict between Finland/ Sweden
- belonged to Finland originally but people wanted it to be for Sweden
- Asked LON for help
- decision was that it should remain with Finland with no weapons
successes of the League in the 1920s
- Aaland
- Upper Silesia
- Memel
- Greece vs Bulgaria
success of Greece vs Bulgaria for LON
- 1925 - Greek soldier killed
- Greek army invaded Bulgaria
- Bulgaria asked League for help
- ordered armies to stop
- sent experts to the area
- fined Greece 45,000
when did Memel conflict happen
1923
Corfu incident?
- conflict between Italy and Albania
- Southern Italians shot by gunmen
- Italians accused Greece and demanded fire
- Italians sent ships to Corfu and bombed
- Mussolini persuaded the LON to fine Greece 50 million lire and managed to get Fiume back for Italy
Success of Upper Silesia for LON
- Upper Silesia wanted a referendum to be part of Germany or Poland
- 700,000- Germany , 500,000- Poland
-riots occured - League was asked for help
- League decided to split Upper Silesia between Germany/ Poland
when was the corfu incident
1923
what were the failures of the League
- Fiume
- Vilna
- War between Russia/Poland
- Corfu incident
when did the U. Silesia conflict happen
1921
