The League of Nations aims and 1920s successes and Failures

The League of Nations aims and 1920s successes and Failures

1. Aims

   • Stop war
   • To improve the life of people and jobs of them around the world
   • Disarmament
   • To uphold and enforce the Treaty of Versailles

2. Major flaws

   • Only met once a year
   • Had no army
   • Took to long to make decisions
   • Had no major country to back them up like the U.S.A or Russia

3. Upper Silesia

   • Germany and Poland both wanted this as it had valuable industry
   • Plebiscite held and voted in favour of Germany
   • Germany got more land and population but the Poles got more industry
   • Result: great bitterness in Germany but both countries accepted the decision

4. Failure at the aim of diarmament

   • 1923 conference failed because the British objected
     • Objected because they didn't want to give soldiers to other countries incase Britain needed them

5. Humanitarian succesess

   • repatriated 400,000 prisoners of war
   • worked to abolish malaria and leprosy
   • attacked slave traders in Sierra Leone and Burma
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   • £10 million spent on making homes and medicines for the homeless

6. Disputes

   • More then half the disputes were settled by the League
     • 7 solved. 3 not

7. Crisis Failure

   • Poland invaded land held by the Russians and then advanced in to Russia
     • 1920
     • The Russians then had only one choice and that was to sign the Treaty of Riga
       • The League did nothing
       • This handed the Poles nearly 80,000 square miles of Russian terrritory