Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The League of Nations aims and 1920s successes and Failures
- Aims
- Stop war
- To improve the life of people and jobs of them around the world
- Disarmament
- To uphold and enforce the Treaty of Versailles
- Major flaws
- Only met once a year
- Had no army
- Took to long to make decisions
- Had no major country to back them up like the U.S.A or Russia
- Upper Silesia
- Germany and Poland both wanted this as it had valuable industry
- Plebiscite held and voted in favour of Germany
- Germany got more land and population but the Poles got more industry
- Result: great bitterness in Germany but both countries accepted the decision
- Failure at the aim of diarmament
- 1923 conference failed because the British objected
- Objected because they didn't want to give soldiers to other countries incase Britain needed them
- Humanitarian succesess
- repatriated 400,000 prisoners of war
- worked to abolish malaria and leprosy
- attacked slave traders in Sierra Leone and Burma
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- £10 million spent on making homes and medicines for the homeless
- Disputes
- More then half the disputes were settled by the League
- 7 solved. 3 not
- Crisis Failure
- Poland invaded land held by the Russians and then advanced in to Russia
- 1920
- The Russians then had only one choice and that was to sign the Treaty of Riga
- The League did nothing
- This handed the Poles nearly 80,000 square miles of Russian terrritory