The League of Nations - an overview
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- Created on: 23-03-13 13:33
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- The League of Nations
- Aims
- To encourage disarmament.
- To encourage countries to cooperate.
- To improve living conditions.
- To discourage aggression between countries.
- Strengths
- Many people supported the League.
- Were able to solve many border disputes.
- Met some of their aims
- Fought for better living conditions.
- Dealt with the spread of disease
- Fought for better living conditions.
- Helped refugees.
- Weaknesses
- USA never joined.
- They had no real power.
- They couldn't stop countries from leaving the League and breaking the terms.
- Disarmament was not realistic. Countries were not prepared to make themselves vulnerable.
- The structure of the League became a disaster- everyone had to to agree for action to he taken.
- Successes
- Solved many border disputes.
- Found homes for refugees.
- Stopped the spread of disease.
- Failures
- Some border disputes were not solved.
- They didn't manage to enforce disarmament which was one of their main aims.
- Membership
- There were 42 countries in the League of Nations.
- Defeated countries were banned from joining.
- They meet up once a year and discuss any matters. For a movement to pass the vote must be unanimous.
- The five main members were Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Belgium.
- Structure
- Assembly
- Each country had one vote.
- Council
- Met up once a year and in emergencies. It had five permanent members with the power to veto.
- Assembly
- Aims
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