The League Of Nations

Question 1

Abyssinian crisis

Answer 1

International tensions resulting from invasion of Abyssinia by Italy in 1935

Question 2

Article 10

Answer 2

Article of the League of Nations Covenant which promised security to League members from attack by other states.

Question 3

Assembly

Answer 3

Main forum of the League of Nations for discussing important issues

Question 4

Collective security

Answer 4

Key principle of the League of Nations that all the members could expect to be secure because the other members of the League would defend them from attack

Question 5

Commissions

Answer 5

Organization set up by the League of Nations to tackle economic, social and health problems.

Question 6

Conference of Ambassadors

Answer 6

Organization involving Britain, France, Italy and Japan which met to sort out International disputes. Worked along the League of Nations.

Question 7

Council

Answer 7

Influential body within the League of Nations which contained the most powerful members of the League.

Question 8

Covenant

Answer 8

Agreement or set of rules

Question 9

Depression

Answer 9

Period of economic downturn where trade between countries and inside countries decline, often leading to unemployment.

Question 10

Dictatorship

Answer 10

System in which one person runs a country

Question 11

Disarmament

Answer 11

Process of scraping land, sea or air weapons

Question 12

Isolationism

Answer 12

Policy in the USA in the 1920s which argued that the USA should not be involved in international disputes

Question 13

Manchuria crisis

Answer 13

International crisis sparked off when Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. Despite investigating, the League of Nations failed to stop Japanese aggressions.

Question 14

Military force

Answer 14

Use of armed force (e.g troops, bombing by aircraft) as opposed to political or economic methods

Question 15

Moral condemnation

Answer 15

Criticism of a state for actions against another state - prelude to stronger actions such as economic sanctions or military force

Question 16

Normalcy

Answer 16

Term used by US President Warren Harding in the 1920s to describe the return to normal life after the First World War

Question 17

Secretariat

Answer 17

The section of the League of Nations which carried out administrative tasks and also the agencies of the League.

Question 18

Tariffs

Answer 18

Taxes on imported goods which made them more expensive - often designed to protect makers of home-produced goods

Question 19

Trade sanctions

Answer 19

Restricting sale of goods to a nation or sales from a nation

Question 20

Unanimous

Answer 20

Agreed by all

Question 21

Wall Street Crash

Answer 21

Collapse in value of US companies in October 1912, which led to widespread economic distress