Think!

• Why could the Treaty of Versailles cause arguments between nations?

How well did the League deal with international border

disputes in the 1920s?

L/O: 1) To appreciate the difficulties the League faced2) To evaluate success by studying case studies

and evidence 3) To come to well argued conclusions

Aims of the League

Aim 1: To discourage aggression

2: To encourage cooperation in business and trade

3: To encourage disarmament 4: To improve living and working conditions

Aim 1: To discourage aggression

The following events and task ask you to show how successful the League was in it´s 1st aim at discouraging aggression

Aaland Islands, 1921

Greek troops invaded Bulgaria after some Greek troops were killed on the border.

Bulgaria appealed to the League.

Sweden and Finland wanted control over the Aaland Islands.Both countries were willing to fight the other one!They appealed to the League for help!

The Greek-Bulgarian Dispute 1925

Upper Silesia, 1921 An industrial region on the border of

Germany and Poland. Both Germans and Poles lived there Germany and Poland wanted to control it

because of it’s industry They appealed to the League!

Vilna, 1920

• Lithuania and Poland were two new states created by the Treaty of Versailles

• Vilna was part of the state of Lithuania and the capital city, but had a mainly Polish population.

• Both countries wanted it.• Was occupied by Poland during the Russo-

Polish war, and troops later refused to leave.

• Lithuania appealed to the League!

Corfu, 1923

• Italian surveyors working on the Greek side of the Greek-Albanian border were shot

• Mussolini (leader of Italy) demanded compensation

• Greece refused to pay and said they had no idea who the murderers were

• Mussolini bombarded and occupied Corfu• 15 people were killed• Greece appealed to the League

What did the League do and did it work?

Dispute / date League’s actions Success / failure Explanation

The Geneva Protocol

• What was the Geneva protocol?• Why was it created?• How effective was it?• Add it to your table and explain your answer

Evaluation

• How successful was the League at solving border disputes in the 1920s?

• Explain your answer considering both sides of the argument and coming to a conclusion!

Aim 2: To encourage cooperation in business and trade

How did the League encourage international co operation and trade between countries?

The treaties of the 1920s! How did the League of Nations help to prolong peace?

Washington Treaty!

Dawes Plan

Locarno Pact

Kellogg Briand Pact

The Young Plan

Aim 4: To improve living and working conditions

Refugees

Task: To create doodles (sketches) to show what the League managed to do to make the work better! ONLY add numbers/abbreviations and pictures

Task: When you have out the events in the right chronological order and then drawn on your ‘success or failure’ bars then you will need to insert brief notes into each bar about the event.

When you have out the events in the right chronological order and then drawn on your ‘success or failure’ bars then you will need to insert brief notes into each bar about the event.

NOTES

EVENT NAME

How successful was the League of Nations in the 1920s?