Topic 1

Foreign Policy Conflicts of the 1920s

Super Government?

Collective Security?

Economic Sanctions

General Assembly

Council

Admittance to the LON

The League of Nations

July 1919

Social Democrats

Dr. Kapp

Rights

Universal Suffrage

Land Issues

The Weimar Republic

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Upper Silesia

Poland

Plebiscite

Silesian Uprisings

The Response of the LON

Suggestions?

Decisions

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The Frontiers of Albania

Response of the League

Setting new borders

Italian General Enrico Tellini (Aug. 1923)

Response of Mussolini

Corfu

Results?

Problems in Albania

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Warren G. Harding

November 12, 1921 - February 6, 1922

9 Powers

American Objectives

Japanese and British Goals

The Washington Naval Conference

The Washington Naval Treaty/Five Power Treaty

Five Powers?

Purpose of the Treaty?

Efforts by the British, Americans, and Japanese to expand their naval power.

The Washington Naval Conference

G3 Battle cruiser

Terms:

35,000 tons

16 inch guns

Aircraft carriers

5:5:3 ratio

The Five Power Treaty

Country Capital Ships Aircraft Carriers

British Empire 525,000 tons 135,000 tons

United States 525,000 tons 135,000 tons

Japan 315,000 tons 81,000 tons

France 175,000 tons 60,000 tons

Italy 175,000 tons 60,000 tons

The Five Power Treaty

Fortifications

Naval Bases

Replacing Ships

The United States

Britain

Japan

France

Italy

Effects of the Five Power Treaty

The Role of the Cypher Bureau

Herbert Yardley

Japanese Communications

Suspicions and accusations

Another look?

China

Open Door Policy

Japanese Influence in China

International Law

The Nine Power Treaty

John Hay

The Treaty of Rapallo

Germany

Soviet Russia

Treaty of Brest Litovsk

Terms of the Treaty

French Concerns

Collective Security outside the League

January 1923

The Ruhr

Response of the Weimar Republic

Inflation

International Sympathy

The Ruhr Crisis

Britain and America Respond

Germany’s Response to the French

The Dawes Plan

The Reichsbank

Changes in payments

The Response to the Ruhr Invasion

Origin of the Pact

Terms?

Major Implications of the pact?

The Spirit of Locarno

Gustav Stressman

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

Frank Kellogg

Aristide Briand

60 Nations

Implications

More attempts at Collective Security

The Young Plan

German Reparations

The Reparations Commission

Elements of Instability

The Great Depression

Financial Issues