Unit 2: Was the League of Nations a success
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| Which leader proposed the League of Nations? | Woodrow Wilson (USA) |
| Why was the League of Nations formed? | To stop war from breaking out again |
| The League of Nations officially started its activities on | 10 January 1920. |
| On the 25 March 1919 David Lloyd George (UK) issued the | Fontainebleau Memorandum. This document stated British support for the League |
| Which two countries were forbidden from joining the League of Nations in 1919? | Germany and The USSR |
| The Washington Conference, November 12, 1921 to February 6, 1922: | To encourage naval disarmament and stop another Naval Race. |
| The purpose was to officially recognise Soviet Russia: | Rapallo Treaty, April 16 1922 |
| Dawes Plan, April 1924: | This plan was made to resolve the issue of WWI reparations that Germany had to pay. |
| An agreement to not send German troops into the Rhineland, and the acceptance that Alsace-Lorraine permanently belonged to France. | Locarno treaties, 5th September, 1925 |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact 27th August 1928 - in effect - 24th July 1929: | To prevent another war from occurring. It was one of many international efforts to prevent war. |
| 22nd December 1929 | The Young Plan |
| An attempt to support the government of Weimar Germany by reducing reparations to 112 billion marks | The Young plan |
| Vilna was to be the capital of Lithuania, but the majority of people living there wanted to be Polish. Lithuania asked the League for help in 1920. What did the LoN do? | Nothing. Poland took Vilna. |
| Upper Silesia was on the border between Germany and Poland. Both Nations claimed it as a part of their territory. When did the dispute take place? | Between 1921 and 1925 |
| In 1925 Greek soldiers invaded Bulgaria | The League ordered them to withdraw their troops and pay compensation. |
| Britain and France drew up the Geneva Protocol in 1924, it sated that if there was a dispute between two nations, the League should settle the issue | BUT the Conservative party in Britain refused to sign the agreement and the League was weakened as a result. |
| How much compensation did Greece have to pay as a result of the Bulgarian crisis? | £45,000 and the threat of sanctions if it did not comply. |
| "The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano" was said by who, from which country? | Gustav Stresemann, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany. |
| The economic depression in the USA... | Severely affected country's such as Germany, which had become reliant upon American loans. |
| In August 1929, the Young Plan | Cut reparation payments from £6.6 billion to £2 billion, with 59 more years to pay. |
| The Great Depression contributed to | The popularity of the NSDAP in Weimar Republic Germany |
| Due to the Great Depression members of the League of Nations were | Reluctant to impose economic sanctions as it would impede their own economic prosperity |
| In 1932 the LoN published the | Lytton report identifying Japan as the aggressor |
| Leader of Italy: | Benito Mussolini |
| Leader of Abyssinia: | Haile Selassie |
| Benito Mussolini seized power in 1922, | One of his foreign policy goals was to recreate the Roman Empire |
| 2-3 October 1935: | Italian forces invaded Abyssinian territory from Eritrea. |
| The League of Nations first response to the invasion of Abyssinia was: | Moral condemnation |
| November 1936 | Rome – Berlin Axis formed |
| The Disarmament Conference took place between, | February 1932 and November 1934 |
| October 1933 | Hitler withdrew from the Disarmament Conference |
| The British signed an agreement with Germany in 1935 that allowed | Germany to build up its navy as long as it stayed under 25% of the size of Britain’s. |