history

• Plebiscite


  A vote for the people to decide which country an area should belong to
• The League of Nations organized a plebiscite in Upper Silesia in 1921 to decide whether the area should become part of Germany or Poland
• The plebiscite result led to Upper Silesia being divided, with one-third going to Poland and two-thirds to Germany
• The League of Nations successfully intervened in a dispute between Finland and Sweden over the Aaland Islands in 1921
• In 1925, the League of Nations successfully resolved a dispute between Greece and Bulgaria after Greece invaded Bulgaria
• The League of Nations helped repatriate 400,000 World War I prisoners and fought against drug trafficking and slavery
• The League of Nations helped Germany accept the borders set out in the Treaty of Versailles through the Locarno Treaty in 1925
• The Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928, where 65 countries promised not to use force to settle disputes, was a success for the League of Nations
• The League of Nations failed to resolve the dispute between Poland and Lithuania over the city of Vilna in 1920
• In 1923, the League of Nations failed to condemn Italy's invasion of Corfu, instead telling Greece to pay Italy compensation
• Disarmament efforts by the League of Nations were slow and unsuccessful, with Germany rejecting the draft disarmament convention in 1933