You will be assigned one of the incidents that occurred in the 1920s and you will need to create a performance that will demonstrate exactly what happened in that incident
Eg two people can represent two countries having a dispute
Another can act as the League who steps in/doesn’t step in to sort the dispute out
You may also want another person to do the commentary over the scene?
Each incident will need at least the following number of people for it to work:
Vilna = needs 4/5 people
Upper Silesia = 5/6 people
Aaland Islands = 3 people
Corfu = 5/6 people
Bulgaria = 4
Any who are not involved need to teach class about the good work the did for refugees, working conditions, health, transport and social problems
You need to make sure you have written down what happened in each of those incidents
Write a balanced analysis of the LON in the 1920s – do you think they did a good/bad job? Or the best they could do in the situation?
Disarmament
The Locarno Treaty
The other successful treaties of the 1920s
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
Starter:As a group rank the 4 aims of the League in order of success during the 1920s – you need to justify your answers
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.
Criticism Evidence For Evidence against
The League was too slow to act
Members would only act on their own interests, not the Leagues
Without the USA the League was powerless
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
Based on the evidence you have found: which of the three problems restricted the League the most? Why?
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
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
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”.
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
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….
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 jobs12,000 people lost their jobs every day23,000 people committed suicide in one year in 1930 (the most ever)
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?
Map image on page 35
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
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 why2. Why the government was held responsible3. What Hitler and the Nazis did to take advantage of the situation4. How they used propaganda to influence people
The Manchuria Crisisyou 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
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