1.  You will be assigned one of the incidents that occurred
in the 1920s and you will needfollowing number
Each incident will need at least the to create a performance
of people for it to work:
that will demonstrate exactlyyou have written
You need to make sure what happened in that
incidentneeds 4/5 people
Vilna =
down what happened in each of those
incidents = 5/6 people
Upper Silesia
 Eg two people can represent two countries having a
dispute Islands = 3 people
Aaland
 Anothera balanced analysis of stepsLON in
Write= 5/6 people as the League who the in/doesn’t
Corfu can act
step in to sort the dispute out they did a
the 1920s – do you think
Bulgaria = 4
 You may also want another person to do the
commentary job?the scene? classthey could
good/bad over Or the best about the good
Any who are not involved need to teach
do inthe didhealth, transport and social problems
work the for refugees, working
conditions,
situation?

2.  Disarmament
 The Locarno Treaty
 The other successful treaties of the 1920s

3. Starter:
As a group rank the 4 aims of the League in order of
success during the 1920s – you need to justify your
answers
Aims:
1. To promote international co-operation, peace and security by
accepting an obligation not to go to war
2. To promote open, just and honorable relations between nations
3. To lay out a system of international law
4. To maintain, or help to modify, treaties between nations

4.  Discuss what you think were the weaknesses of the
League of Nations from what you have read so far
about its structure, leadership and restraints when
handling problems.

5. Below is a table of what the critics of the League of Nations argued. Copy
the table into your books and look through your reports to find evidence
that supports these arguments or goes against the arguments
Criticism Evidence For Evidence against
The League was too
slow to act
Based on the evidence you have found:
Members would only
act on their own
which of the three problems restricted
interests, not the
Leagues
the League the most? Why?
Without the USA the
League was powerless

6.  Refugees – 400,000 prisoners of war were returned to their
homes . Helped During the Turkey Crisis of 1922
 Working Conditions – limited the hours children could work.
Reduced working hours to 48 hours a week
 Health – reduced Leprosy and Malaria
 Transport – introduced highway code and shipping lanes
 Social Problems – Blacklisted four international companies
involved in the drugs trade . Freed 200,000 slaves in Sierra Leone
 The Locarno Treaty 1924 – Germany accepts its borders agreed
by the T of V and Germany joins the League in 1926.
 The Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 - 65 countries agreed not to use
force to settle disputes (although none of the countries would
disarm as they said they needed their armies for self-defence

8.  America profited more than any other
country during World War I because
they were not involved in the war at
the start but supported the allies by
producing lots of weapons and clothes
for them which was easy due to their
large amount of industry
 This gave lots of people in USA lots of
jobs and lots f money. The government
made lots of profits as well as they
were selling the weapons for a lot more
than they cost to make

9.  With more money to spend people brought lots of
luxury goods such as cars, radios, going to the cinema’s
and invested on the stock market.
 President Hoover’s aim: “a chicken in every pot and two
cars in every garage”.

10.  Companies borrow money to pay for equipment or
staff etc
 Investors get a share of the profit the company
makes
 ‘Shareholders’ can sell their shares on the stock
market.
 This is based in Wall Street, New York
 Prices can change every day according to how well
the company is doing.
 Prices can also change no matter how the company
is doing this is called Speculation

11.  Ford were making a car every 10
seconds!!
 However, not everyone was enjoying the
economic boom. Items such as cars and
electrical goods were brought by the
upper classes and by 1929 those who
could afford such goods had already
brought them. This meant sales declined
in many industries.
 People began to try and sell their shares
in companies but there were not enough
buyers….

12. Almost every company in
America lost money
along with most of the
American population.
America entered into its
worst economic
depression ever!!
12 million people lost their jobs
12,000 people lost their jobs every day
23,000 people committed suicide in one
year in 1930 (the most ever)

13.  What effect the depression would have on the rest of
the world?
 Think about how today’s depression affects lots of
different countries
 What effect the depression would have on the League
of Nation’ s effectiveness?

14.  Map image on page 35

15.  I have not worked since last year
 I will support anyone who can get the country back to
work
 If we had our own empire we would have the resources
we need to stop the depression affecting us
 Reparations have caused this mess
 The bank has closed we have lost everything
 We need tough leaders who will not be pushed around
by the League or the USA
 We should ban all foreign goods, this will the jobs of
our workers

16.  Go onto Google and type in Wall Street Crash ppt
 Open the second power point
 You need to investigate How the Wall Street Crash in
the USA lead to Hitler coming into power in Germany
 The areas you need to cover:
1. Who were the people who suffered in Germany from the depression
and why
2. Why the government was held responsible
3. What Hitler and the Nazis did to take advantage of the situation
4. How they used propaganda to influence people

17. The Manchuria Crisis
you need to read the information on the crisis from the
textbooks and you need to produce a detailed timeline of the
important events that occurred
Who was to blame for the Leagues failure over Manchuria;
the Leagues structure or the individual members?
Justify your answer

18.  1920s Japan became a major power – large army, strong industry, growing empire
 1930s - Depression in the 1930s hits Japan badly as China and USA put trade tariffs on Japanese goods
 Japanese army leaders wanted to expand Japanese empire by force
 September 1931 Japan army throw all Chinese out of Manchuria
 February 1932 puppet government set up in Manchuria
 1932 – Japanese aeroplanes bomb Shanghai
 Japanese government tells Japanese army to withdraw but they are ignored – it is clear that the Japanese army is in control of
Japanese foreign policy not the government
 China appeals to the League – Japan says it is settling a local difficulty and that China was in anarchy and this was needed to
keep peace
 September 1932 the League decides Japan acted unlawfully and give Manchuria back to China
 February 1933 Japan announces they intend to invade more of China in Slef defence
 24th February the League votes against this action
 Japan leave the League on 27th March 1933
 The next week they invade Jehol
 The League doesn’t know what to do to stop them - many excuses made but the League did nothing to stop Japan