Successes and Failures of League during 1920s
- Created by: Khadija Najam
- Created on: 17-02-18 19:59
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- Successes and Failures of League in 1920s
- VILNA: 1920
- Unsuccessful
- Vilna was capital city of Lithuania, but residents wanted to be Polish.
- Poland took over Vilna and Lithuania wanted League's help.
- Polish told to step down: refused.
- French didn't help as they saw Poland as a potential ally and Britain couldn't act as a unanimous decision wasn't made
- AALAND ISLANDS: 1921
- Sucessful
- Border dispute between Sweden and Finland: both claimed Aaland Islands: threatened war on each other
- League said island should go to Finland: not allowed to build forts: so couldn't use it to attack Sweden
- Sweden agreed and war was successfully prevented
- CORFU: 1923
- Unsuccessful- easily overturned by another group
- Italy sorting borders between Greece and Albania: some Italian soldiers killed
- Mussolini blamed Greece: wanted compensation and murderers to be killled
- Mussolini invaded Corfu: Greek Island
- League condemned Mussolini's actions and agreed to give money to Italy when killers were found
- Mussolini dissatisfied: went to Conference of Ambassador: undermined League by making them pay compensation
- VILNA: 1920
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