League Of Nations
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- League of Nations
- Problems With The League
- too idealistic
- america didn't join because Wilson lost the election in1919
- didn't want to stop trading with aggressive countries
- anti empire
- didn't like treaty of Versailles and the league was just a reinforcement of it
- americans had german ancestors
- didn't want to have to fight for britain
- no army of its own
- Main Aims
- discourage aggression
- encourage business and trade
- disarming nations
- improve living and working conditions
- Factfile
- based in Switzerland Geneva
- based on 26 articles
- had 42 members when it began... 59 by 1930s
- The Set Up Of The League
- The Secretariat: --> health -->disarming --> economic matters
- Mandates Commision: ensured that stronger powers acted in the leagues best interests and not their own
- Refugees Committee: got refugees and prisoners of war home. also stamped out illnesses in refugee camps
- Slavery Commitee: freed 200 000 slaves in British colonies
- Health Committee: reduced malaria and yellow fever. (Even USSR took their advice)
- The International Labour Organisation (ILO): working conditions - banned poisonous white lead paint and limited 48 hour week (many countries ignored their rules as it raised industrial costs)
- The Permanent Court of International Justice: sorted out disputes with countries
- had no way of enforcing its ruling
- The Assembly: (parliament) all decisions had to be unaminous
- The Council: met about 5 times a year and was made up of permanent members, could issue sanctions
- successes
- Upper Silesia - 1921: germany and poland were fighting over the Upper Silesia. A plebiscite was taken and divided the land accordingly
- Aaland Islands - 1921: both Finland and Sweden wanted the land. The league decided that Finland got it, Sweden accepted
- Bulgaria -1925: Greece invaded Bulgaria. The Leagure condemned Greece and ordered it to pay compensation.
- Faliures
- Vilna -1920: Polish pirvate army over took the capitol of Lithuania. Officially the league should have sent in troops but France saw Poland as a future ally and Britain wasn't prepared to act alone
- Corfu -1923: Italy demanded compensation for a general that had been murdered and invaded Corfu -15 people killed- The Greeks appealed to the league as they didnt know the murders.
- The League said they should pay conpensationto the league and that money would be passed on if and when the killers were found.
- Officially Mussolini agreed but managed to persuade the League to transfer the money to Italy. The Greeks had to apologis
- The League said they should pay conpensationto the league and that money would be passed on if and when the killers were found.
- The Geneva Protocol: Britain and France drew up a protocol demanding that its judgment is accepted by all members. Before the plan could be put in place the Conservatives came into power and scrapped the protocol
- Problems With The League
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