Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The League Of Nations
- Background
- Set up by the T.O.V
- Ideally like a "World
Parliament"
- Based in Geneva
- 42
countries
joined at
the start
- USA did not join
- USSR
Did not
join
- Germany
not allowed
to join
- Britain and
France leading
members
- Aims (SIDE)
- Stop war
- Improve working conditions
- Disarmament
- Enforce the
TOV
- Powers of The League
- Covenant -
Keeping the peace
- Condemnation
- Arbitration
- Sanctions
- Structure
- Assembly - met once a year
- Council - Met 4-5 times a year
- Agencies -
Slavery, COIJ,
Health, ILO,
Refugee
- Secretariat -
organise the
league
- International Agreements
- Dawes Plan -
Prevent conflict
through money
lending to
Germany
- Locarno
Treaties -
Germany
accepted TOV
boarders
decisions
- Kellog Briand Pact -
Countries agreed to try
and solve disputes
peacefully
- Failures in the 1920s
- Poland (1920) - took land
from russia, poles ignored
decision
- Disarmament (1932) -
Disarmament talks
failed as Gemany
demanded more
weapons
- Kellog Briand Pact - Countries just ignored it
- Corfu (1923) - Mussolini ignored the
leagues decision
- Jobs - ILO failed to
agree to a 48 hour
week
- Invasion of the
Ruhr- France
invaded Ruhr to
get reparation
payments
- Successes of the League
- Reparations 1921 -
Germans refused to pay -
F & B invaded Germany
to make them pay
- Aaland islands 1921 -
Finland and Sweden
- Bulgaria 1925 - Greece/ Bulgaria
- Slaves and disease
- Refugees 1922 -
returned refugees
to their home
- Economy
- Drugs
- Manchuria 1935
- Japan invaded
parts of China
- Henry Pu'i put in charge