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‘The League of Nations was successful in achieving its aims in the 1920s.’
‘The League of Nations was successful in achieving its aims in the 1920s.’
Agree
Helped to increase working and living conditions
Removed poisonous white paint from factories
Shortened a day of work to 8 hours
Made the International Labour Organisation
The Health Organisation helped to fight leprosy, reduced . the number of cases of malaria and tackled the plague in Siberia certain places
The the rate of workers on the Tanganyika railway decreased from 50% to 4%
Around 200,000 slaves freed from British Sierra Leone
Around 400,000 war prisoners returned to their homes
Helped with some international disputes
The Aaland Islands in 1921, Sweden and Finland threatened to go to war over the islands. The League gave them to Finland and Sweden accepted.
Upper Silesia 1921, the League decided to give the industrial areas to Germany and the rural areas to Poland. Both countries agreed.
Bulgaria 1925, Greek troops invade Bulgaria after Bulgarian troops are killed. The League orders the troops to withdraw from Bulgaria and the accept.
Disagree
Did not solve all international disputes as its main reason was
Manchuria
Corfu 1936, Italian troops killed on Greek land. The league appealed to Mussolini's want of compensation, but said that they would keep the money until the murderers were found. Mussolini wanted the money straight away and so the league left them to dispute.
Vilna 1925, Polish troops invade and were told to leave by the league. The refused and the league did nothing about it.
Did not bring economic stability to European countries after WW1
Due to the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the US called back many loans and so left countries with no help and in with a crashing economy, leading to severe poverty in Germany and civil . unrest.
Meant that business and trade between the countries could not continue to occur and could not be encouraged
Did not achieve military stablility
Only Germany disarmed out of all the countries included
The Disarmament conference in 1936 failed
Did not deal with problems like Manchuria well and so led to Japan leaving the LoN and continuing to invade China in 1933