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19 Cards in this Set
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Aims |
To improve the working and living conditions of the poor To maintain WORLD PEACE To uphold the terms of the treaty of Versaille Disarmament |
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Assembly |
The leagues parliament Met once a year Very large as every member state represented |
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Permanent court |
15judges Met at the hague to sort out international disputes |
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Council |
Most authority Met when there is a crisis Britain, france, italy and japan |
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Covenant |
Written into all peace treaties Showed the aims of the League |
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Secretariat |
Civil service of the League |
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ILO |
Each member nation sent two minister, a worker and an employee Discussed working conditions |
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Strengths |
Successful ILO Commission set up for humanitarian work 42 countries at the start General feeling of cooperation Council was strong and economically powerful Members had experienced war and didnt wat a repeat Covenant was easy to understand Ambitious and noble aims Madates set up for ex-colonies |
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Weaknesses |
Too ambitious aims Secretariat was understaffed USA no ARMY no B and F disagreed over purpose of the League Could only make a unanimous vote Lack of equal disarmament |
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VILNA |
1919 Most people Polish Kand given to Lithuania Poland invaded League negotiates but FAILS and gives into Poland |
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UPPER SILESIA |
1920 Both Germany and Poland disputed ownership League held a pleboscite No majority Split the land GOOD |
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AALAND ISLANDS |
1920 Sweden and Finland disputed ownership Land was finland But most people Swedish League decided land should remain with Finland GOOD |
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Locarno treaty |
In October 1925 representatives fro. Lots of countries met at the lakeside resort of Locarno They agreed.... Rhineland demilitarised Rhineland fixed borders To protect poland if Germany attacked That Germany would not use force It was good in showing that Germany was an equal partnet and put across that Europe was stable however, also undermined the League as Germanys Eastern frontiers did not seem as oermanent as her Western frontiers |
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Kellog briand Pact 4 |
In 1928 foreign ministers if France and Germany drew up the Kellogg Briand Pact No violence in self defence for 5 years 65 nations signed |
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Washington Naval Agreement 3 |
Signed by Britain US Japan Navy in the ratio 5,5,3 1921 |
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Work of the ILO |
Refugees: helped to get refugees back home. 400,000 in first year Stamped out cholera and small pox in camps in Turkey 1922 Working conditions: Banned pisonous lead paint Linited working hours Health: worked to defeat leprosy Transport: marked shipping lanes and produced international highway code Social Problem: blacklisted four illegal drug trades Raids aginst slave owned |
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Depression make work of league harder |
Less international cooperation Britain and France didnt want to worry about other countries People faced hardship and turned to radical ideas and leaders |
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Manchuria 1931 |
Japan invades because chinese put up tariffs in depression, silk trade destroyed Japan took over Manchurian Railway Gave them an extra 20,000 land for people League ordered them to return Chunese appealed LYTTON REPORT - took a year and when it was released Japan resigned from League |
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Abyssinia 1935 |
Italy invaded Abyssinia Ital had tried before but was humiliated by the poorly equipt African tribes Wanted revenge Selessie ruler of Abyssina appealed League didnt close Suez Canal - CRUCIAL B AND F didnt want to upset Mussolini Hoare Laval Scheme - December 1835 Outside the League undermining it FAILED |
