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Succesess and Failures of the League of Nations in the 1920's - Coggle…
Succesess and Failures of the League of Nations in the 1920's
Successes
Social Success
League Commissions helped millions of refugees find homes
Helped 500,000 Prisoners of war return home
Health Organisation helped stop the spread of serious diseases like Malaria
200,000 slaves freed in Burma and Sierra Leone
International Labour Organisation persuaded member countries to introduce minimum wages and limits on working hours
Political Successes
Upper Silesia (1921)
Divded bwteen Poland and Germany without conflict
Aaland Islands (1921)
Sweden agreed that Finland should keep them
Bulgaria (1925)
Bulgaria was invaded by Greece. League ordered Greece to withdraw and it obeyed
Failures
Political Failures
Vilna (1920)
The capital of Lithuania seized by Poland. Poland refused to give it up and the League failed to stop military aggression
Corfu (1923)
Greek island occupied by Italy. League ordered Italy to leave but it refused. League changed it's mind and made Greece give money to Italy
Ruhr (1923)
Industrial area of Germany was occupied by France when Germany failed to keep up reparations payments. League did nothing to intervene
Structural Failures
USA was the most stable and strong country at the time but didn't join the league
The structure was large and complicated which made it hard to get things done
Decisions had to be uniamouns
Permanent council members could veto decisions
The League lacked it's own army which meant that they couldn't follow though with threats
Sanctions failed because they could just trade with the USA