Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How successful was the
League of Nations
- Vilna 1920
- Poland-Lithuania
- Polish army simply took capital of new
state Lithuania
- League protested but Poland did nothing
- French did not want to upset Poland (ally
against Germany)
- Britain did not want to act alone
- League of Nations did nothing
- -5
- Aaland Islands 1921
- 5
- Sweden-Finland
- Both wanted control of islands, in-between their territories
- Threatened to fight
- League of Nations said islands should go to Finland
- Sweden accepted
- Returned about 100,000 prisoners of war to
their homeland
- Defeated Leprosy and reduced
malaria by exterminating
mosquitos
- Freed 200,000 slaves in sierra Leone and
blacklisted companies in illegal drug trade
- Banned poisonous white lead and limited working hours
- Germany and France still arguing
- Little progress in disarment (except Germany)
- Countries still did not trust each other
- Upper Silesia 1921
- 5
- Germany-Poland
- Germany and Poland both
wanted Upper Silesia, mix of
Polish and Germans and had iron
and steel industry
- Vote was taken
- Rural ares voted Poland, Industrial areas voted German
- Area was split
- Safeguards put in place
- Sharing of power and rail links
- Corfu 1923
- -2
- Greece-Albania
- 5 Italian surveyors killed by Greeks on the border
- Mussolini furious
- Italy invaded Corfu
- Greeks went to League of Nations
- Britain and France did not want to upset Italians
- Greeks had to apologise and pay compensation
- Bulgaria 1925
- 4
- Greece-Bulgaria
- Greeks were killed at a fight at the border
- Greece invaded Bulgaria
- The Greeks were forced to pay compensation
and leave Bulgaria
- Faced with Disapproval, Greece accepted
- They complained there was one rule for large
states and another for smaller states
- No USA
- No real power
- Decisions took time and had to be unanimous