Review

Question 1

What did Llyod George say?

Answer 1

will start another war in 25 years

Question 2

Why did the US Senate not ratify the treaty?

Answer 2

isolationist concerns regarding article 10

Question 3

Treaty of St Germain

Answer 3

Took land to create new countries like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
Against Austria
Military limited
Ties with Germany severed

Question 4

The Treaty of Neuilly

Answer 4

Bulgaria
Lost land to Greece and Yugoslavia
£100 million in reparations
No airforce

Question 5

Treaty of Trianon

Answer 5

Hungary
lost 2/3 of land
Only allowed 3 patrol boats

Question 6

Treaty of Sevres

Answer 6

Turkey
Split up Ottoman empire
limited army
Seen as humiliation

Question 7

When was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 7

1924

Question 8

What was the problem with the Dawes Plan?

Answer 8

upset the French
made Germany reliant on US loans

Question 9

When were the Locarno Treaties?

Answer 9

1925

Question 10

What happened at the Locarno Treaties?

Answer 10

Germany and France promised to never attack each others
Germany accepted TOV
Led to Germany joining the League
Germany did not agree to eastern borders
League was not involved

Question 11

When was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

Answer 11

1928

Question 12

What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact agree on?

Answer 12

Not to use war as a means of solving dispute
Germany treated equally
US and Soviet Union took part
Unenforceable
62 countries

Question 13

What was the Young Plan?

Answer 13

revised Dawes Plan
cut reparations to £2 billion
doomed by Wall Street Clash

Question 14

When was the LON set up and how many members were there?

Answer 14

January 1920
42

Question 15

What was the slavery commission?

Answer 15

Freed 200000 people from organised raids on slave traders in Sierra Leone
Nepal emaciated slaves
No laws universally against slavery

Question 16

Refugee Commission

Answer 16

freed 427000 out of 500000 prisoners of war after WW1
provided aid for Russians freeing civil war
failed to help Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany

Question 17

International Labour Organisation

Answer 17

recommended banning white lead paint
1930 helped countries set up social insurance systems
minimum wage agreement in 1928 (77 countries)
couldn’t stop under 14s working
couldn’t pass 1927 convention to guarantee worker’s rights to join trade unions

Question 18

Vilna

Answer 18

Poland and Lithuania
October 1920
Poland ignored league and continued invading
Polish-Soviet war continued after ww1

Question 19

Upper Silesia

Answer 19

Germany and Poland
plebiscite in 1921
Germany won by 60% but this was challenged by Poland
Split based on votes
Germany got mostly rural areas and Poland industrial areas
Both were bitter

Question 20

Aaland Islands

Answer 20

Sweden and Finland
90% population was Swedish but given to Finland
Concessions granted to Sweden
Both content

Question 21

Corfu

Answer 21

August 1923, Italian General killed on Greco-Albanian border
Mussolini demanded compensation from Greek government
Mussolini killed 15 people
League morally condemned but forced Greece to pay

Question 22

When was the Manchurian crisis?

Answer 22

September 1931

Question 23

Why could they invade Manchuria?

Answer 23

They had already invaded Korea

Question 24

When was a puppet government implemented?

Answer 24

1932

Question 25

When was Lord Lytton sent and when did he release his report?

Answer 25

January 1932 October 1932

Question 26

Why did Mussolini feel confident going through with Abyssinia?

Answer 26

Knew Britain and France wanted him to stay in 1935 Stresa Front

Question 27

When did the Abyssinia crisis start and why?

Answer 27

December 1934 border clash between Abyssinians and Italians at Wal-Wal Oasis

Question 28

What sanctions were placed on Italy, when and why didn't they do much?

Answer 28

economic October 1935 did not include coal and oil Hoare-Laval Pact (december 1935)

Question 29

How much did the German army grow?

Answer 29

From 100000 to 3.7 million between 1933 and 1939

Question 30

Why did Mussolini move his troops to the Austrian border?

Answer 30

wanted Austria to be a buffer state between them and Germany

Question 31

What happened at the Saar plebiscite?

Answer 31

90% voted to join Germany confirmed expansionist ambitions coalfields could produce weapons

Question 32

How many troops were sent into the Rhineland?

Answer 32

22000

Question 33

Why was the Rhineland allowed?

Answer 33

French politicians were dealing with an election campaign

Question 34

When was the vote for Anschluss and how many agreed?

Answer 34

April 1938 99.7%

Question 35

When was the Munich Conference?

Answer 35

September 1938