league of nations

Cards (15)

  • aims of LoN
    Stop war
    Improve lives
    Trade
    Enforce treaties
    Disarmement
  • members
    Great Britain
    France
    Japan
    China
  • non members
    Germany
    USA
    Russia
  • agencies
    Slavery commision
    Refugee commision
  • vilna 1920 failure or success?
    failure-LoN did nothing because they had no army to go against the Polish army
  • upper silesia success or failure?
    success- LoN drew new borders in upper silesia so everyone lived where they6 wanted
  • Aaland islands success or failure?
    LoN look like they can handle things - was a border dispute not a war
  • manchuria crisis- who attacked who?
    Japan vs China
  • what was the problem with Lord Lytton when he was sent to deal with the manchuria crisis?
    he was very slow finding out what happened or who was to blame.
  • why did mussolini want abyssinia?
    rebuild the roman empire
    resources
    revenge against abyssinian
  • 1920s successes
    -Aaland islands
    -Bulgaria
  • Aaland islands?

    sat in between finland and sweden- was owned by finland but majority wanted to be ruled y sweden- the league ruled them to remain finnish- the both accepted
  • Bulgaria
    invaded by greece in 1925 after border disputes league ordered greece to withdraw they did.
  • failures
    -corfu
    -vilna
  • corfu? 1923
    Failure- greek island occupied by italy in response to an italian diplomat being shot in greece- at first the league told italy to leave the greeks alone but italy ignored the demand and ordered greece for compensation league changed mind and made greece give the money - greece agreed and italy withdrew its troops