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League of Nations (Structure (Secretariat (Paperwork, Communications and…

- - - - Temporary members of the council
      - League's budget
      - New members
      - Council's ideas
- - - - Great Depression
        
        Crowded → increasing population
        
        Manchuria attractive
        
        Territory 3x Japan’s
        
        ⅓ of population
        
        Forestry, minerals and agricultural products wealth
        
        Military and nationalists took over
    - - Japanese soldiers blew up a part of the South Manchuria Railway → blamed the local population
    - - Verbal sanctions
        
        Government lost control of the army
        
        Machukuo - new military government
        
        Economic sanctions
        
        Great Depression
        
        Risk losing trade
        
        Economic crisis
        
        Commission of Enquiry
        
        Lord Lytton of Great Britain
        
        Visited the Far East including Manchuria
        
        Reports in October 1932
        
        Manchuria semi-independent country
        
        Approved in 1933
        
        Japan resigned
        
        Occupied more of China
        
        Possible ally with Germany and Italy
  - - - Troops clashed at Wal Wal
      - Accused Ethiopia of agression
    - - European countries wanted colonies in Africa
      - Mussolini only had three (two in either side of Ethiopia)
    - - Economic sanctions
        
        Imposed six weeks after the invasion
        
        Three of Italy’s allies refused
        
        Steel, grain, gold and textiles
        
        No ban on oil supplies → US biggest oil supplier → B and F afraid to provoke Mussolini
        
        British didn’t close the Suez Canal to Italian ships taking military supplies
      - Hoare-Laval Plan
        
        Two large areas of Ethiopia to Mussolini
        
        South of Ethiopia for Italian business
        
        British people protested → betrayal to Ethiopia
        
        Hoare resigned
      - Annoyed Mussolini
        
        Looked for alliance with Hitler
      - Distraction
        
        Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland
- - - - Studied the situation
        
        Finland should have them
        
        No explanatiom
    - - Condemned Greeks
        
        Pull out and pay compensation
        
        Complain: larger countries priority
    - - Solution satisfied both countries
        
        Considered citizens' opinion
        
        Plebiscite
        
        Troops to keep order
        
        Divided the region and built safeguards for no further disputes
        
        Water and power supply arrangements
    - - Between
        
        Britain
        
        France
        
        Belgium
        
        Germany
        
        Czechoslovakia
        
        Italy
        
        Poland
      - What it did:
        
        Secure borders
        
        Permanent demilitarization of the Rhineland
        
        Germany join LoN
        
        Italy agreed to intervene if Germany attacked France
        
        “Locarno Spirit”
        
        Belief in a lasting peace and a successful LoN
        
        Solve resentment and improved national relationships
        
        Nazis and Communists → further betrayal of Germany
  - - - League did nothing
        
        Acknowledge that Poland was the aggressor
        
        France didn’t want to upset Poland (possible German ally)
        
        Britain didn’t want to act alone
        
        Poles kept Vilna
    - - Good intentions
        
        Condemned Mussolini’s actions
        
        Greece pay reparations to LoN
        
        If murderer found, money to Italy
        
        Corruption: Mussolini talked to Ambassadors
        
        Reparations were paid directly to Italy
        
        Greeks had to apologize
- - - - Business men
      - German refugees
      - France and Britian
      - Not affected by the war
      - Soldiers
    - - No powerful countries in the lead
        
        No resources (money and soldiers)
        
        No US influence
        
        Trade sanctions → oil
  - - - France worried about Germany
        
        Germany had no benefits → economically unstable
        
        Russia had communism and Bolsheviks
        
        Untrustworthy and badly behaved