Upper Silesia

• Where was Upper Silesia located


  On the border between Germany and Poland
• what people were living in upper Silesia 


  Germans and Poles
• What is a plebiscite 


  A vote that the whole country takes part in
• What was profitable about upper Silesia 


  Iron and steel production
• What was profitable about upper Silesia 


  Iron and steel production Iron and steel production
• What was the plebiscite organised about and what date did it happen


  To decide who would upper silesia go too and it was organised in 1921
• Who won the vote of the plebiscite and by how much


  Germany won by 60 percent
• What was Polands claim about how the voting was unfair

  Many of the people who voted for Germany no longer lived in Upper

  Silesia
• What did the LoN decide too do about Upper Silesia

  Split Upper Silesia into regions according to how the people voted
• What areas were given to

  Germany

  Most of the rural areas
• What areas were given to

  Poland

  Most of the industrial zones
• Why did the Poles say the final settlement was considered unfair?

  The received half the population but only a third of the land. Around half a million poles were now in confirmed German territory
• Why weren't Germans satisfied of the final settlement

  They lost coal mines they owned prior to the settlement. A valuable source of income