Topic 2 notes

Question 1

Vilnia

Answer 1

1920 - Failure
- Poland invades Lithuania and takes control of capital Vilna
- Lithuania complains to LoN over it
- LoN does nothing

Question 2

Upper Silesia Plebiscite

Answer 2

1921 - Success
- Plebiscite held between Germany and Poland over an industrial area
- Poland wins and Germany complains
- Lon redistributes land 50/50

Question 3

Aaland Islands

Answer 3

1921 - Success
- Dispute over islands between Finland and Sweden
- Islanders mostly Swedish
- LoN rules that island goes to Finland
- both accept decision

Question 4

Mosul

Answer 4

1924 - Success
- Turkey occupied Kurdish populated Mosul in Iraq
- LoN investigated awarded Mosul to Iraq not Turkey
- Turkey agreed with decision

Question 5

Corfu

Answer 5

1923 - Failure
- Borders between Albania and Greece had not been properly determined
- Therefore Italy sent a general to supervise
- Greeks killed the general which lead Mussolini to invade and occupy Corfu - killing 15 in the process
Article 12 + 15: Originally Mussolini’s actions condemned alt Greece advised to pay compensation
Britain - Agreed with Greece + wanted to send warships against Italy
France - Backed Italy
Conclusion: eventually Greece ordered to pay 50 million lire and apologise for its actions
27th September 1923 - troops removed from Corfu

Question 6

Bulgaria

Answer 6

1925 - Success
- Greece invades Bulgaria after a border dispute left dead troops
- League investigated and ruled that Greece was in the wrong
- they would have to leave Bulgaria as well as pay them £45,000 in reparations for the invasion

Question 7

Wall Street Crash

Answer 7

1929
Britain and France: undermined their ability to stop the disputes due to weaknesses in their economies. E.g. 2.75 million Brits unemployed and coal industry ruined
Nationalism - lead to an increase in nationalism from Germany, Italy and Japan due to their economic states
- example: Japan invaded Manchuria due to lack of resources

Question 8

Washington Conference

Answer 8

1921

Question 9

4 power treaty

Answer 9

1921
status quo in the atlantic

Question 10

Washington Naval pact

Answer 10

1921
- stopped arms race of sea
- by limiting the construction of ships

Question 11

Dawes Plan

Answer 11

1924
- successfully helped countries out with reperations
- Germany able to receive 200m USD through wall street bonds
- stagger payback reperations

Question 12

Locarno treaty

Answer 12

1925
- post war border

Question 13

Kellog Briand Pact

Answer 13

1928
- countries agreed to solve disputes diplomatically
- made little impact due to lack of enforcement