League of Nations
Aims
Prevent aggression from any nation
Improve living and working conditions
Of people all over the world
Encourage countries to cooperate
Specially in bussiness and trade
Encourage nations to disarm
42 members at the begining
59 members
1920
An organisation that could solve international problems without restoring war
Enforce the Treaty of Versaille
There were 3 opinions on how the League should be
Wilson (USA)
A parliament where representatives of all nations could meet together regularly to decide on any matters that affected them all
Won
The plans were
Major nations would join the League
They would promis to accept the decision made by the League
Would disarm
If they had any dispute with another country they wouldtake it to the League
Would protect each other if they were invaded
If any country go on war
Other members would promise to stop trading with him
If necessary they would force him to stop fighting by sending troops
A very good idea
Countries wouldn´t go on war if USA would stop trading with them
That citizens of all countries would be so much against war
That this would prevent leaders to go on war
Wilson needed the aproval of the Congress in 1919
USA never entered the League
Political opposition
Oponents of Democracy Party saw the Lague
As a oportunity to defeat them
In March 1920
Wilson tried again
Democrats
Thought that if they didn´t entered the League
A war will follow
VS
Republicans
Isolationism
Return to normalcy
Life before war
They won
Treaty of Versaille hate
All signators of the Treaty should join the League
Some American people were against the Treaty
Some people in the USA were inmigrants
Lot of German people
Never wanted the USA to join the war
Didn´t want the League
It would squeezed reparation payments out of Germany
Economic cost
USA would promise to solve all international problems regardless the cost
USA business leaders said USA became powerfull due to Isolationism
USA should
Continue to mind its own business
Stay out of Europe affairs
Death
USA would promise to send troops to every little conflict around the world
People wanted USA to stay out from these conflicts since it would bring more deaths
Against France and Britain
People thought the League would be under the control of Britain and France
Usa was against colonies and empires
They belived in freedom
They wouldn´t help them
Lloyd George (Britain)
Simple organisation that would just get together in emergencies
Clemenceau (France)
Strong League with its own army
To avoid repeatting the masacre of the FWW
Geneva (Switzerland)
Covenant
26 rules which all members accepted
Members
Italy and Japan
Permanent members of the Council
Britain and France
Most powerfull ones
Pros
The fact of beeing the most powerfull
Cons
Poorly placed to take on this role
Weakened by the FWW
Not at their "best moment"
Neither had the resources to fill the gap left by the USA
They thought that USA was the only country to make the League work
Particulary with the trade sanction
The both doubted how effective it could be
Both had other priorities
Rebuild its trade and looking after their Empire
Both prefered this than being an "international police"
They were afraid that the League couldn´t protect them from Germany
Organisation
The secretariat
Civil service
Meetings and reoprts
Specialists in
different areas
The council
Met more often
Integrated by
Permanent members
Each had a Veto
Temporary members
To solve diputes by
Moral condemnation
Economic and financial sanctions
Military force
The assembly
The leagues parliament
Once a year
Unanimous
Voted on
New members
Temporary members
The budget
Ideas of the council
The international
labour organisation
Once a Year
Representatives
Employers
Goverments
Workers
Improve working conditions
Collecting info
Persuading goverments
The permanent court
of international justice
Based in the Hagues
Key role on solving disputes
It would give decisions
Had no way of imposing it
The commissions
Mandates commissions
Monitored new mandates
Of France and Great Britain
To ensure their
wellfare
Refugees comitee
Helped refugees go back to thei contry
By the help of the Nassen passport
Slavery commission
Worked to abolish slavery
The health comitee
Attempted to deal with deseases
Helped educating people
Also with sanitation
Regarded as the most
succesful
Crisis and Border disputes
Vilna
1920
Poland took Vilna
Lithuania´s capital
By force
Nobody was prepared to act against
Upper Silesia
1921
Dispute between Poland
and Germany
For Upper Silesia
The league proposed a votation
The territory was peacifuly divided
Poland had the countryside
Germany the urban areas
Aaland islands
1921
Sweden and Finland
Wanted some islnads
The league sent people to investigate
Ruled they had to go to
Finland
Sweden accepted
Corfu
1923
An island disputed by
Greece and Albania
Tellini, and italian was sent
He was killed
The league without knowing the
culprits
Greece had to pay
When the culprits were found
Mussolini pressed on the League
The league said
Greece had to pay reparations now
Greece was not happy nut paid
The Geneva protocol
Drawned up by Britain
and France
What the League ruled
Had to be accepted
Both countries refused
signing it
Bulgaria
1925
Greek soldiers were killed
By Bulgarian soldiers
They said they where on their territory
The league ruled Greece had to pay
Greece was´nt happy again
How it worked for a
better future
Refugees
Worked tremendously
With a low budget
To get them to their homeland
Helped in Turkey in 1922
Helped more than 400,000
During it´s first year
Working conditions
Banned poisonous things
Limited the time
Kids worked
People in general
Up to 48 hours a week
Health
reaserched infectous diseases
Helped making vaccines
Fought against leprosy and malaria
Starteed global campaigns
Transport
Created an international
highway code
Recommended marking ships
Social problems
Blacklisted
Illicite drug companies
German
Dutch
Swiss
French
Freed 200,000 slaves
Organised raids against
Slave owners
Challenged forced work