Unit 2 - The League of Nations

Question 1

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 1

The League of Nations was an international organisation established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles

Question 2

Which three major countries were not in the League of Nations to begin with?

Answer 2

The USA, Germany and the USSR

Question 3

Who’s idea was the League of Nations?

Answer 3

Woodrow Wilson’s

Question 4

What was the Secretariat in the League of Nations?

Answer 4

An organisation that ran bodies such created by the League such as the Health department and social unit

Question 5

What was the assembly in the League of Nations?

Answer 5

A group of all the countries in the League of Nations. Each country had 3 representatives and 1 vote. Votes had to be unanimous.

Question 6

What did the assembly in the League of Nations decide?

Answer 6

Who could be members, what the budget was and appointing council members

Question 7

What was the council in the League of Nations?

Answer 7

The council was the decision making body in the League of Nations and met 5 times a year. The council has 4 permanent members and 4 non-permanent members who alternated every 3 years

Question 8

What could the League of Nations use to keep countries in line?

Answer 8

Threats and Trade Sanctions

Question 9

What happened in Vilna in 1920?

Answer 9

Poland invaded the Lithuanian capital Vilna and no-one was willing to lend their army to help

Question 10

What happened in the Aland island in 1921?

Answer 10

Both Finland and Sweden wanted control of the Aland islands so the League of Nations gave them to Finland but they weren’t allowed to use it as a base to attack Sweden

Question 11

What happened in Upper Silesia from 1921 - 25?

Answer 11

Both Germany and Poland wanted Upper Silesia so the League of Nations split it between them. However neither countries were happy with the agreement.

Question 12

What happened in Corfu in 1923?

Answer 12

Italy invaded in Corfu so the League told them to leave but Italy didn’t leave Corfu.

Question 13

What happened in Bulgaria in 1925?

Answer 13

Greece invaded Bulgaria and the League of Nations asked then to leave which they did because they didn’t want to be against Britain and France

Question 14

What was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 14

When the USA’s economy reduced in one day in 1929

Question 15

What did the Wall street cause?

Answer 15

The great depression

Question 16

Why did Japan want an empire?

Answer 16

Their main trading partner, the USA, wasn’t trading so they has no goods from other countries

Question 17

Where did Japan invade?

Answer 17

Manchuria

Question 18

Who did China ask for help?

Answer 18

The League of Nations

Question 19

Who went to Manchuria to help sort the problem?

Answer 19

Lord Lyton

Question 20

What did the League do to Japan?

Answer 20

Nothing

Question 21

What years was the Manchurian Crisis?

Answer 21

1931 - 1932

Question 22

Why did Italy invade Abyssinia?

Answer 22

They wanted revenge after being defeated by Abyssinia in 1896, there was valuable resources in Abyssinia, Mussolini gained support from the Italian people and he had seen the weakness of the League of Nations in Manchuria and Hitler’s growing power

Question 23

What did the League of Nations do to Italy?

Answer 23

Nothing