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MODERN WORLD HISTORY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1900-1939
League of Nations
Aims, organizations and powers
Key aims of the League:
1. Stop wars
2. Encourage disarmament
3. Make the world a better place, by
- improving people's working conditions
- tackling disease
Main parts of the League's organization:
1. Assembly -- met once a year
2. Council -- met more regularly to consider crises
3. Small secretariat -- handled the paperwork
4. Court of International Justice
5. Number of committees -- for humanitarian work
- International Labour Organization
- Health Committee
Powers by which the League planned to stop wars:
Strengths of the League:
1. Set up the Treaty of Versailles, which every nation had signed
2. Had 58 nations as members by the 1930s
3. Offer arbitration through the Court of International Justice
4. Apply trade sanctions against countries that went to war
Weaknesses of the League:
1. Set up the Treaty of Versailles, which every nation hated
2. Aims were too ambitious
3. Germany, Russia and USA were not members
4. It had no army
5. Its organization was cumbersome
6. Decisions had to be unanimous
SUMMARY OF 'THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS'
Article/s
3. Set up the Assembly -- a meeting of all the members of the League
DETAILS
42 countries were members (rising to 58 in 1934). The USA, USSR and Germany - the three greatest powers in the world - were not members
4. Set up the Council -- Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and 4 other countries elected by the assembly -- which met four to five times a year and in times of crisis
DETAILS
Allowed the League to respond quickly to crises. However, the Council members, were not the most powerful countries in the world, and were not prepared to use their armies. Also, sometimes Council members were involved int the trouble
5. Said that agreements of the Council and Assembly had to be unanimous
DETAILS
Made it very hard to get anything done
6. Set up the Secretariat
DETAILS
Too small to handle the vast work of the League
8. Promised to seek disarmament
DETAILS
Conferences in 1923 and 1932-33 failed
11. The League shall ... safeguard the peace of nations
DETAILS
Over-ambitious?
13. Planned for the arbitration of disputes
DETAILS
Only worked if both sides agreed
14. Set up the Court of International Justice
DETAILS
Could advise on international law and arbitrate in disputes, but had no power to enforce its decisions
15. Planned for trade sanctions against any country that went to war
DETAILS
Trade sanctions damaged the countries of the League as well as the country that had gone to war
22. Set up the Mandates Commission to look after the former colonies of Germany and Turkey
DETAILS
The mandates were administered by France and Britain, two council members
23. The League promised to improve conditions for workers, stop drug trafficking, help trade and control disease
DETAILS
Over-ambitious?
The above information was taken from a BBC website: BBC - GCSE Bitesize, from the History Section
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1900-1939
League of Nations
Aims, organizations and powers
Key aims of the League:
1. Stop wars
2. Encourage disarmament
3. Make the world a better place, by
- improving people's working conditions
- tackling disease
Main parts of the League's organization:
1. Assembly -- met once a year
2. Council -- met more regularly to consider crises
3. Small secretariat -- handled the paperwork
4. Court of International Justice
5. Number of committees -- for humanitarian work
- International Labour Organization
- Health Committee
Powers by which the League planned to stop wars:
Strengths of the League:
1. Set up the Treaty of Versailles, which every nation had signed
2. Had 58 nations as members by the 1930s
3. Offer arbitration through the Court of International Justice
4. Apply trade sanctions against countries that went to war
Weaknesses of the League:
1. Set up the Treaty of Versailles, which every nation hated
2. Aims were too ambitious
3. Germany, Russia and USA were not members
4. It had no army
5. Its organization was cumbersome
6. Decisions had to be unanimous
SUMMARY OF 'THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS'
Article/s
3. Set up the Assembly -- a meeting of all the members of the League
DETAILS
42 countries were members (rising to 58 in 1934). The USA, USSR and Germany - the three greatest powers in the world - were not members
4. Set up the Council -- Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and 4 other countries elected by the assembly -- which met four to five times a year and in times of crisis
DETAILS
Allowed the League to respond quickly to crises. However, the Council members, were not the most powerful countries in the world, and were not prepared to use their armies. Also, sometimes Council members were involved int the trouble
5. Said that agreements of the Council and Assembly had to be unanimous
DETAILS
Made it very hard to get anything done
6. Set up the Secretariat
DETAILS
Too small to handle the vast work of the League
8. Promised to seek disarmament
DETAILS
Conferences in 1923 and 1932-33 failed
11. The League shall ... safeguard the peace of nations
DETAILS
Over-ambitious?
13. Planned for the arbitration of disputes
DETAILS
Only worked if both sides agreed
14. Set up the Court of International Justice
DETAILS
Could advise on international law and arbitrate in disputes, but had no power to enforce its decisions
15. Planned for trade sanctions against any country that went to war
DETAILS
Trade sanctions damaged the countries of the League as well as the country that had gone to war
22. Set up the Mandates Commission to look after the former colonies of Germany and Turkey
DETAILS
The mandates were administered by France and Britain, two council members
23. The League promised to improve conditions for workers, stop drug trafficking, help trade and control disease
DETAILS
Over-ambitious?
The above information was taken from a BBC website: BBC - GCSE Bitesize, from the History Section
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