Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Conflict and Tension - Coggle Diagram

- - - - No army so could only use moral condemnation and economic sanctions, only attempt to mitigate disputes not solves them
    - - Did Not join so countries could still trade with them
    - - Council who could veto any decisions and a assembly who met one a year so everything was done very slowly
    - - Powerful nations were too busy with their own countries to worry about others
    - - Manchuria and abyssnia made LoN look weak
    - - Italy and Japan undermine LoN
    - - Failfure gave confidenc to people like hitler and mussolini
  - - - Vilna 1920
        
        Poland seized Lithuania capital and refused to give it up
      - Corfu Crisis
        
        Greek Island occupied by Italy, league ordered them to leave but they refused so LoN switched up and made greece pay them to leave
      - Ruhr 1923
        
        france invaded germany as they missed one of their payment s and LoN failed to do anything
    - - Upper Silesia 1921
        
        Divided Poland and Germany without conflict 1921
      - Aaland Islands 1921
        
        Halfway between Sweden and Finland, peacefully agreed finland could have it
      - Bulgaria 1925
        
        Invaded by greece who withdrew when Lon demanded it
      - Social
        
        Help millions of refugees
        
        500,000 PoW returned home
        
        Set up World health Organization
        
        200,00 Slaves freed
        
        Introduced minimum wage and limits on working hours
  - - - Manchuria crisis 1931
        
        Japan attacking China in retaliation of a railway explosion. Japan pretended to give them freedom with a puppet leader. Lytton report-Japan blew up their own train but LoN didn't do anything to stop.
        
        B+F worried about Hitler and Mussolini
        
        Made LoN look weak
        
        Showed how not every powerful country is in LoN(USSR couldn't help)
        
        Japan could veto decisions
      - Great Depression
        
        Lots of countries had been borrowing from USA to rebuild after WW1 so when the wall street crash happened it caused poverty and unemployment which lead to desperation and a turn towards fascism. Ment UK+F were to busy to help LoN
        
        Hitler and Mussolini not afraid to use violence
        
        LoN couldn't use economic sanctions
        
        Countries didn't want expense of war
      - Abyssinia 1935
        
        Italy invaded, they asked LoN for help, they used economic sanction on everything but oil and didn't close the suez canal so Italy totally conquered them
        
        Agreed Italy could have it -Hoare Laval Pact secret agreement of Britain and france
- - - - Austria
      - Separted from hungary
      - Banned Anschluss
      - Reparations
      - limit army 30,000 with no navy
    - - Hungary
      - Took land away
      - Limit army 35,000 and 3 ships
    - - Bulgaria
      - !00 million reparations
      - Took away some land
      - Army 20,000 with no air force
    - - Turkey
      - Lost all land in europe to greece
      - Army 50,000 and allies kept troops there
- - - - Weaken Germany
      - Revenge
      - Reparations for repairs
    - - Happy with Rhineland
      - Happy with reparations but wanted more
      - Angry they still had an army
      - Annoyed only had Saarland for 15 years, wanted it permanently
      - Was voted out by french people in next election
  - - - League of Nations
      - Disarmament
      - Free Trade
      - Peace
      - His 14 points
    - - Happy with LoN
      - feared treaty would lead to war
      - People felt he had helped Uk+F get stronger
  - - - Punish germany
      - Still be able to trade with them
      - Wanted all their african colonies
      - Wanted naval supremacy
    - - Happy with colonies
      - Happy their navy was restricted
      - Thought reparations were too hard
      - Worried they the treaty was too harsh and would lead to another war
      - Britain lose an important trade partner
- - - - Ordered Austrian Nazis to murder their Chancellor