Core - To what extent was the League of Nations a success

Worked examples (6)

• 1Describe the aims of the League of Nations
• 2Describe the structure of the League
• 3Explain why the League of Nations was created
• 4Explain why the League's structure had built-in weaknesses
• 5Judgement: was the League doomed from the start?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: an extract from the Covenant

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• 1Describe the weaknesses of the League of Nations
• 2Describe the effects of US absence from the League
• 3Explain why US absence was so damaging
• 4Explain why the absence of a League army crippled collective security
• 5Judgement: which was the biggest weakness?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on the US Senate rejection

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• 1Describe the Locarno Treaties
• 2Describe the Kellogg–Briand Pact
• 3Explain why the Dawes Plan worked in the short term
• 4Explain why the Spirit of Locarno was fragile
• 5Judgement: was the League secondary to other diplomacy in the 1920s?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on Locarno

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• 1Describe the Corfu Crisis
• 2Describe the Bulgaria–Greece crisis of 1925
• 3Explain why the League failed in Vilna
• 4Explain why the League succeeded in the Aaland Islands
• 5Judgement: was the League's 1920s peacekeeping record a success?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on Corfu

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• 1Describe the work of the International Labour Organization
• 2Describe the work of Fridtjof Nansen for refugees
• 3Explain why humanitarian work succeeded where peacekeeping failed
• 4Explain the significance of the 1926 Slavery Convention
• 5Judgement: was humanitarian work the League's main achievement?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a photo of refugees receiving Nansen passports

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• 1Describe the impact of the Great Depression on world economies
• 2Describe the World Disarmament Conference of 1932–34
• 3Explain how the Great Depression weakened the League
• 4Explain why the World Disarmament Conference collapsed
• 5Judgement: was the Depression the main cause of the League's failure?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on the Depression and the League

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• 1Describe the Mukden Incident
• 2Describe the Lytton Commission and its Report
• 3Explain why Japan invaded Manchuria
• 4Explain why the League failed in Manchuria
• 5Judgement: how important was the Manchurian Crisis for the League?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: extract from the Lytton Report

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• 1Describe the Italian invasion of Abyssinia
• 2Describe the Hoare-Laval Pact
• 3Explain why Mussolini invaded Abyssinia
• 4Explain why the League failed in Abyssinia
• 5Judgement: did Abyssinia destroy the League?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: extract from Haile Selassie's Geneva speech

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• 1Describe the League's main successes
• 2Describe the League's main failures
• 3Why the League succeeded in the 1920s
• 4Why some say the League was doomed from 1919
• 5How successful was the League of Nations?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: cartoon mocking the League

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