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- - - - 10% of its resource-rich land in Europe (Polish Corridor, N. Schleswig, Alsace-Lorraine)
        
        eg. Under the Treaty of Versailles, the highly industrialised Saar Basin, including the Saar Coal District, was to be occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France under a League of Nations mandate for a period of fifteen years. Its coalfields were also to be ceded to France.
      - Rhineland was demilitarised & occupied by Allied troops
      - All of its overseas colonies (Africa, Asia-Pacific)
      - 12.5% of its population
      - 16% of its coalfields and almost 50% of its iron and steel industry
      - No political union was allowed with Austria
    - - The loss of population meant that there was less manpower, and productivity decreased. Their industries were weakened. Their economy was too crippled to pay back the reparations
- - - - Turkey drove the Greeks out of Smyrna in 1922 – all the League could do was agree.
      - Greece asked the League for help, which ordered Mussolini to leave – but the Conference of Ambassadors overruled the League and forced Greece to pay compensation to Italy.
      - in 1923, after an Italian general named Tellini was murdered in Greece, Italy occupied Corfu.
      - Other treaties such as the Washington Treaty (1921) and the Locarno Pact (1925) are a sign that nations did not think the League could stop wars.
      - France invaded the Ruhr in 1923 when the Germans did not pay reparations; the League was not even consulted.
    - - The ILO failed to persuade members countries to adopt a 48-hour week.
      - A disarmament conference in 1923 failed because Britain objected.
      - It took until 1931 to arrange another conference, which was wrecked when Germany demanded equal armaments with Britain and France.
    - - In 1920, the Poles captured Vilna (the capital of Lithuania) and refused to withdraw when the League ordered it to; the League could do nothing.
      - In 1923, Lithuania seized Memel, a German port under League control, the League told Lithuania to leave, but the Conference of Ambassadors gave Memel to Lithuania.