League of Nations peacekeeping 1920's onwards

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria

  • 1931

  • Japan invaded Manchuria (North East China)

  • Lytton report took a year - pointless

  • 1933 a second invasion happened

  • UNSUCCESSFUL

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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