The league of nations
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- Created on: 01-05-13 20:28
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- The League of Nations
- Aims of the League
- Improving living and working conditions around the world
- To ensure WW1 is never repeated
- By encouraging disarmement
- The League ran a series of disarmament confrences
- How was the League organised?
- Permanent Court of International Justice was set up
- Judges from different countries to resolve disputes between different countries
- Relied heavily on moral force and public opinion
- The Council of the League was a small group
- Met several times a year and included 4 permanent members
- Britain, Italy, France, Japan
- Most powerful body of the League
- It had a power to authorize action against any state wrongdoer
- Moral condemnation
- Strong words from the Council condemning a state might pressure the state to mend its ways
- Trade sanctions
- The Council could decide if members of the League would no longer trade with an offending state
- Use of force
- Empowered the use of armed forces against any country who committee aggression against a neighbour
- Moral condemnation
- Met several times a year and included 4 permanent members
- Each PERMANENT member of the Council would have a VETO
- A VETO is where one country ALONE has the power to block a decision by itself
- Permanent Court of International Justice was set up
- The Assembly was like a world parliment
- 42 members that only met once a year
- not effective
- elected states to represent on the Council
- voted the Leagues budget
- Aims of the League
- To ensure WW1 is never repeated
- Article 10 said members of the League would act together to protect any members if threatened
- Aims of the League
- Improving living and working conditions around the world
- By encouraging disarmement
- The League ran a series of disarmament confrences
- Aims of the League
- The Refugees Commission was effective in helping to resolve the huge refugee crisis
- existed after WW1
- Encouraging peaceful settlement of international disputes
- Weren't successful
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