League of Nations peacekeeping 1920's onwards

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

• 1931

• Japan invaded Manchuria (North East China)

• Lytton report took a year - pointless

• 1933 a second invasion happened

• UNSUCCESSFUL

Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

• 1935

• January - October 1935 Mussolini shipped in his army while pretending to negotiate

• In December 1934 there was a dispute and Italy claimed Abyssinia as theirs

• Weapons were banned to sell to Italy but OIL and COAL weren’t as it would put 30,00 people out of buisness Suez Canal was still open to them as well

• UNSUCCESSFUL

Vilnius dispute - Poland and Lithuania

• 1920-29

• Poland and Lithuania were just independent

• Vilnius was announced Lithuania’s capital

• Two days later it was annexed

• League ordered Poland to withdraw troops but they refused

• UNSUCCESSFUL

Aaland islands dispute

• 1921

• Island between Sweden and Finland

• Islanders wanted independence

• League awarded the Islands to Finland but made them withdraw troops

• Swedish islanders had protections

• SUCCESSFUL

Corfu dispute

• 1923

• General Tellini was supervising the drawing of borders

• He was ambushed and assassinated

• Mussolini blamed the Greeks

• August 31 1923 he bombed and occupied the island of Corfu

• The league condemned Italy and they withdrew their troops one month later

• Greece was forced to pay 50 million

• UNSUCCESSFUL - couldn’t deal with Italy properly

Petrich incident

• October 1925

• Bulgaria - Greece border

• Greece invaded

• Bulgaria appealed for help

• Greece had to pay £45,00

• Greece complained Italy - a big country got little/no punishment

• SUCCESSFUL