the league’s failures

Question 1

corfu

Answer 1

showed that powerful countries could ignore the league.

• italy was told to leave after occupying the island in 1923
• they ignored this and the league changed its mind.
• greece was fined instead of italy

Question 2

vilna

Answer 2

• poland seized the city and refused to give it up as told by the league
• showed that the league was powerless to stop military agression

Question 3

the ruhr

Answer 3

• the french invaded it in 1923 after germany failed to do its reparation payments
• french began shipping the products back to france
• the league didn’t do anything.