Versailles
Parts of the League
League Successes and Failures
Other Agreements
Key terms
100
the document the Germans hoped would form the basis for the peace settlement to be negotiated at the end of the war
What was Wilson's 14 Points?
100
the League's parliament where representatives of every member country could meet
What is the Assembly?
100
the small territory given to Finland by the League preventing a war between Finland and Sweden
What is the Aaland Islands?
100
the 1929 agreement reduced Germany's Reparations from 6.6 billion pounds to 2 billion pounds
What is the Young Plan?
100
where one person has complete control over all aspects of life in a country
What is dictatorship?
200
the principle (expressed by Wilson) that each ethnic group or nationality should be able to rule themselves
What is "self-determination"?
200
organisation that made sure Britain, France (and NZ) acted in the interests of the former german colonies they were now ruling on behalf of the League
What is the Mandates Commission?
200
area invaded by France and Belgium in 1923 because Germany fell behind on its reparations payments
What is the Ruhr?
200
the meeting in 1922 where naval leaders agreed to limit the number of ships they had in their navies
What was the Washington Conference?
200
a period of business decline and large scale unemployment
What is a Depression?
300
area which became a demilitarized zone between France and Germany
What is the Rhineland?
300
the body that met once a year to improve the conditions of working people around the world
What is the ILO (International Labour Organisation)?
300
the capital of Lithuania, captured by Poland in 1920, which the League was unable to free from Polish hands
What is Vilna?
300
country to the east of Germany with which France made a military alliance in 1921
What is Poland?
300
selling your trade goods at below the costs of production so as to cripple overseas competitors
What is dumping?
400
Important industrial area lost to Poland
What is Upper Silesia?
400
Britain, France, Japan and Italy
Who were the four permanent members of the League's Council?
400
location of an incident between Greece and Italy over the deaths of an Italian survey team working on behalf of the League
What is Corfu?
400
the Swiss town where countries met to decide where the western borders of germany should be
What is Locarno?
400
an additional tax added to imported goods to help discourage consumers from buying imports rather than a local product
What is a tariff?
500
the (very harsh) treaty Germany had signed with Russia in 1918
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
the part of the League based in the Netherlands rather than Geneva
What is the Permanent Court of International Justice?
500
British colony where the League freed 200 000 slaves
What is Sierra Leone?
500
the German politician who shared the Nobel Prize for Peace after leading his country into the League of Nations in 1926
Who is Gustav Stresemann?
500
a government made up of a number of different political parties such as that lead by Adolf Hitler in Germany or John Key in NZ
What is a coalition government?
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