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Oxford AQA History (component 2) AS and A level- International Relations, chapter 14-18
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How did the LON respond to the Upper Silesia border dispute of 1920?
How did the LON respond to the Upper Silesia border dispute of 1920?
Both Germany and Poland coveted the area of Upper Silesia, which had a lucrative iron and steel industry and contained many of each country's ethnic people. The League held a plebiscite to let the people decide which country they wanted to be a part of and sent troops to maintain order at polling booths. The League split the area according to the votes (industrial areas to Germany, agricultural areas to Poland). Germany and Poland were not satisfied with this but accepted it nonetheless
Was the World disarmament conference 1932-1934 successful?
Was the World disarmament conference 1932-1934 successful?
Not successful
-Weak enthusiasm for limiting armaments amongst governments despite public pressure
-Resolutions contained very little detail on how objectives would be secured
-nations reluctant to give up the right to build planes with the capacity to drop bombs despite the popular resolution to prohibit bombing civilians
Successful
-resolutions were created to place limits on the size of artillery and tanks, and to ban the bombing of civilians and the use of chemicals in warfare
"The actions of the USA were the most important reason for the failure of the economic conferences in the early 1930s." Assess the validity of this view.
"The actions of the USA were the most important reason for the failure of the economic conferences ...
Economic conferences:
-Lausanne conference on reparations 1932
-The London conference 1933
Actions of the USA:
-Bombshell message @ London conference
-Protectionist policies E.G Smoot-Hawley 1930
Actions of others:
-Britain no intention of returning of returning to the gold standard or abandoning tariffs @ Imperial economic conference
-Lack of commitment to free trade
Major Factors:
-Domestic pressure due to the Great Depression
-National interests > global cooperation
judgement: Actions of the USA were not the sole factor, nature of challenges faced are multi-faced
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