IGCSE history Ch2 League of Nations

Dates for Britain's membership of League of Nations

1919-1945

Dates for Germany's membership of the League

Sept 1926- Oct 1933

Dates for USA's membership of the League

Never joined

Dates of Japan's membership of the League

1919- Mar 1933

Dates of the Soviet Union's membership of the League

1934-1939 (expelled for attacking Finland)

Dates of France's membership of the League

1919-1945

Dates of Italy's membership of the League

1919- Dec 1937 (Left over Abyssinia)

Year Italy left the League after sanctions were imposed

1937

Dates when Congress voted against joining the League of Nations

Sept 1920 and March 1921

Dates of Russian civil war when Britain, France and Japan had assisted counter-revolutionary forces

1918-1921

Year the number of non-permanent members of the Council was increased to 11

1936

Date of Mukden railway incident

18th September 1931

Date by which Japanese troops promised to withdraw to the railway

16 November 1931

Date Japan attacked Shanghai

January 1932

Date Manchuria was renamed Manchukuo

March 1932

Lord Lytton leads a commission of enquiry to Manchuria

Apr 1932

Lytton commission concludes in a report that the invasion was not justified

Sept 1932

When did Japan announce its intention to invade more of China

Feb 1933

Date Japan invaded Jehol

March 1933

Date Japan left the League of Nations (after criticism for invading Manchuria)

27 March 1933

Date the League discussed banning arms sales and introducing economic sanctions against Japan

Feb 1933

Treaty signed by the Japanese in which they promised not to invade China

Washington naval treaty of 1922

When was the Techen dispute?

1919-1920

It was a territorial conflict between Poland and Czechoslovakia over the rich coal-mining and railway region of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen) following the collapse of Austria-Hungary.

Brief fighting, known as the Polish-Czechoslovak War, broke out in January 1919 after Czechoslovak forces invaded the Polish-administered portion to stop Polish legislative elections. An armistice ended the fighting, and the Spa Conference partitioned the territory on July 28, 1920. Poland received the city of Cieszyn and the northern half, while Czechoslovakia received the southern half containing the valuable Karviná coal mines and railway.

It's cited as a failure of the League both because the outcome satisfied no one and because it showed disputes being handled by the great powers rather than by the League itself.

Year the Conference of Ambassadors (diplomats representing the Allied countries) was established

1920

Year Poland seized the city of Vilnius/Vilna from Lithuania (and kept it)

1920

What year was the Conference of Ambassadors dissolved as it largely duplicated the work of the League of Nations

1931

Aaland Islands awarded to Finland by the League - League success

1921

Upper Silesia plebiscite - Poland gained the East, Germany the West - League success

March 1921

Year of the Washington Conference, held outside the League, where the USA, Britain, Japan and France agreed to limit their navies

1921

Year Mosul was awarded to Iraq

1924

Years the League rescued Austria and Hungary from financial collapse - League success

1922 and 1933

Dawes Plan - USA lent money to Germany to help it pay its reparations bill

1924

Young Plan - reduced Germany's reparations payments

1929

Geneva Protocol - would make members in dispute ask the League to arbitrate and accept the Council's decision

1924

Year Germany defaulted on its reparations payment, leading France and Belgium to occupy the Ruhr

1922

Date General Tellini was killed while surveying the Greek-Italian border

27th August 1923

Year Mussolini demanded the Conference of Ambassadors rule on Italy's compensation claim against Greece

1923

When was the Greece, Bulgaria dispute?

October 1925 (League success)

Year Greece had to pay £45,000 compensation to Bulgaria

1925

Armistice

11th November 1918

Treaty of Versailles signed

28th June 1919

Reparations figure set at £6,600 million

April 1921

Memel - League failure

1923 - 1924

Under the Treaty of Versailles (1919/1920): Germany forced to renounce sovereignty over Memel (north of the Neman River in East Prussia), intending for it to remain under international control

Klaipėda Revolt (January 1923): Lithuanian-backed forces staged an armed revolt, seized the region, and ousted the French administration.

Klaipėda Convention (May 8, 1924): The Conference of Ambassadors (Britain, France, Italy, Japan) and the League of Nations accepted the takeover and signed the Klaipėda Convention, making Memel an autonomous region under Lithuanian sovereignty. Hitler would seize it back in March 1939

Corfu - League failure

August 1923

Locarno Treaties / Locarno Pact

16th October 1925 (agreed); formally signed December 1925

Kellogg-Briand Pact

August 1928

Wall Street Crash

24th October 1929

Manchuria - League failure

1931-33

Hitler became Chancellor

January 1933

Germany walked out of Disarmament Conference & left League

October 1933

Stresa Front

April 1935

Abyssinia - League failure

October 1935-36

Hitler announces his violations of the Versailles disarmament clauses announcing Conscription in Germany

March 1935

Anglo-German Naval Agreement

June 1935

Wal-Wal Oasis Incident

December 1934

League committee reports that neither side to blame for Wal-Wal incident. Mussolini rejects it.

4 Sept 1935

Italy invades Abyssinia; the League bans arms sales, loans and some trade, but NOT oil

October 1935

Hoare-Laval Pact drawn up dividing Abyssinia, initially secret but leaked to French press

December 1935

League committee concludes that an oil ban would exhaust Italy's supplies in two months - still does not go into effect.

Feb 1936

Hitler marches troops into the Rhineland

March 1936

Capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa falls, Haile Selassie forced into exile.

2 May 1936

Haile Selassie appears before League of Nations Assembly in Geneva Switzerland and gives passionate speech protesting at Italian occupation of the country.

June 1936

Mussolini and HItler sign Rome-Berlin Axis

November 1936

Germany unites with Austria (Anschluss) League plays little or no part

March 1938

The Sudetenland Crisis and Munich Conference. Germany acquires the Sudentenland from Czechsolovakia. League not consulted.

Sept 1938

Germany invades rest of Czechoslovakia, and seizes Memel from Lithuania. League not consulted and does nothing.

March 1939

Germany invades Poland, League stops meeting.

3 Sept 1939

Nazi-Soviet Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) - nonaggression treaty. (in secret agree to carve up Poland, once Germany had invaded).

August 1939

USSR expelled from league for attacking and invading FinLAND.

noV 1939

League meets for the last time and is wound up; its assets pass to the United Nations.

April 1946