Questions on League of Nations

QUESTIONS FROM THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Q1.Study the picture, and then answer the questions which follow.
The Assembly of the League of Nations in session, Geneva 1923.





(a) Describe the work of the Agencies of the League of Nations. [5]
(b) Why was the structure of the League a weakness? [7]
(c) How successful was the League of Nations in dealing with disputes in the 1920s and 1930s?
Explain your answer. [8] (June’08)

Q2. Study the cartoon, and then answer the questions which follow.

cartoon entitled ‘The Doormat’, published in a British newspaper in 1932.

(a) How did the League of Nations hope to prevent future wars between nations? [5]
(b) Why did the League fail to stop Italian aggression against Corfu in 1923? [7]
(c) ‘The League was a failure’. How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.[8]

Q3. Study the extract and then answer the questions which follow.

The French want to suck Germany and everybody else dry and to establish French military and political control of the League of Nations. The French see the League of Nations as an organisation for the restoration of France to a supreme position in Europe.
Views of a British official at the peace negotiations in 1919.

(a) Which terms of the peace settlement of 1919 directly affected France? [5]
(b) Why did some countries view with suspicion the setting up of the League of Nations? [7]
(c) How far did the structural weaknesses of the League of Nations prevent it from being
successful in the 1920s? Explain your answer. [8] (June 2003)

Q4. Study the extract, and then answer the questions which follow.
The League may be a difficult scheme to work, but the significant thing is that the Powers have promised to make it work. Mankind has, in the short space of ten years, jumped from the old order to the new. We are witnessing one of the great miracles of history.
From a speech made in 1930.

(a) Describe two successes the League of Nations had in the 1920s in solving disputes. [5]
(b) Why was the League of Nations quite successful in the first ten years of its existence? [7]
(c) ‘The good work of the League was destroyed by the Depression of the 1930s.’ Do you agree? Explain your answer.[8] (Nov 2002)

Q5. Study the extract, and then answer the questions which follow.
Article 16: Should any member of the League resort to war, it shall be regarded as having committed an act of war against all other members of the League, and this will end immediately all trade and financial relations with that member.
From the Covenant of the League of Nations.

(a) How did the League of Nations hope to prevent future wars between nations? [5]
(b) Why did the League of Nations fail to restrict the aggression of Japan in the 1930s? [7]
(c) How far was the League of Nations a failure? Explain your answer. [8] (Nov2003)