disarmament‚ or stop powerful countries. It stopped some wars – e.g. it arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands (1921) and stopped the invasion of Bulgaria by Greece (1925). In 1928‚ the League arranged the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which outlawed war. The League also took 400‚000 Prisoners of War home and set up refugee camps. The Health Committee worked against leprosy. The League closed down four Swiss drugs companies‚ and attacked slave owners. However
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During the 1920’s the League of Nations primary desire was to end war across all fronts and to promote international co-operation. Therefore the best criteria that can be used to classify a success‚ was whether war was avoided and a peaceful settlement formulated after a crisis between two or more nations. Although this aim was the most important the league also tried to help economic problems in other countries. This applied to the economic collapse of Austria and Hungary between 1922-3. When
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Treaty of Versailles[8] In the session of the League of Nations on December 15‚ 1928 in Lugano Stresemann formulated a furious charge against Poland because of these crimes which were well known to the League of Nations[9][10]. The chairman Aristide Briand‚ French foreign minister‚ concluded the session after this speech with the words: "The League of Nations must never break the sacred support of the minority-rights."[11].After this reconciliation with the Versailles powers‚ Stresemann moved to allay
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last very long – the Turks went to war with the Greeks and drove them out‚ and the Treaty of Lausanne 1923 gave back this land to Turkey. The Locarno Pact The Locarno pact allowed Germany to join the League of Nations and established that they would have to respect the shared borders of France and Belgium. Kellogg Briand Pact The Pact of Paris was signed by 15 nations—Australia‚ Belgium‚ Canada‚ Czechoslovakia‚ France‚ Germany‚ Great Britain‚ India‚ the Irish Free State‚ Italy‚ Japan‚ New
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What developments between 1920- 1930 were aimed at preserving world peace and what was the impact of these developments upon international relations? From 1920-1930‚ people were shell-shocked after the terror and brutality of the war. They were desperate to ensure that it never happened again‚ which lead to the creation of many new treaties designed to maintain the peace around the world. In 1924‚ the Dawes Plan was introduced to collect war reparations debt from Germany. The Dawes Plan aimed
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these strategies‚ closely analyze strength and weaknesses of each measure and explore factual justification engulfed it. Meanwhile‚ punitive measures against German were staged whereby treaties such as Versailles‚ Neuilly‚ St Germaine‚ Lorcano‚ Kellogg Briand Pact‚ Young Plan and Dawes Plan were put in order in a bid to camouflage the emerging out
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only to continue adding to the corruption already occurring. Coolidge on the other hand takes control after the death of Harding in 1923 and accomplished much more than Harding might have ever did. During the presidential time of Coolidge the Kellogg-Briand act was put to be followed. Lets discover what made these two men so different from one another! Warren Gamaliel Harding happened to be the 29th president of the United States. He served from 1921 till his death in 1923 due to a heart attack
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Answer Key Top of Form Question 1 (Worth 5 points) Which of the following was evidence to support Vanzetti’s innocence during the Braintree robbery and double murder trial? No witness claimed to see Vanzetti during the shooting. Witnesses placed Vanzetti elsewhere during the crime. Vanzetti feared for his safety and that of his friends. Vanzetti’s gun had not been used in the shooting. Points earned on this question: 5 Question 2 (Worth 5 points) What was the significance of the
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Gustave Stresemann had a lot of influence over Germany in the period between 1923 and 1929. Though he was only chancellor for a short while he occupied other very important positions such as Germany’s Foreign Minister. Before Stresemann took charge in 1923 the Weimar Republic had many problems. In 1922 the government declared that they could no longer pay reparations to France due to severe economic problems. The French responded to this by sending 60‚000 French and Belgian troops to invade the
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the Locarno Pact with France and Belgium‚ to respect each other’s borders and not attack them. To keep peace with other countries as well‚ Germany joined the League of Nations in 1926. In 1928 Germany was one of 60 countries to sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy. Through these pacts Stresemann helped to improve international relations with other countries‚ this helped the international acceptance of Germany. By signing pacts with other
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