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League of Nations: Failure to settle teschen issue
In January 1919, Polish and Czech troops for Teschen, and many were killed and injured. The League was called on to help and decided that most of the town should go to Poland while Czechoslovakia should have one of Teschen’s suburbs. This suburb contained the most valuable coalmines and the Poles refused to accept this decision. Though no more wholesale violence took place, the two countries continued to argue over the issue for the next twenty years. -
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League of Nations: failure during war between Russia and Poland
In 1920, Poland invaded land held by the Russians. By 1921, the Polish had gained 80,000 square kilometers of the Russian land. Many had said that the League of Nations were “selecting which countries were acceptable” and which ones were not. And therefore did not assist Russia in this situation. -
Success for the Aaland Islands
The Aaland Islands was in between the two countries of Sweden and Finland, so they were unable to decide whose property it was. In1921 Sweden and Finland asked the League to adjudicate. The League’s decision was that they should remain with Finland but that no weapons should ever be kept there. Both countries accepted the decision and it remains in force to this day. This acts as a success for the League of Nations because they were able to have Sweden and Finland solve their dilemma, and have t -
League of Nations: Failure Italy and Albania
In 1923, a 5 Italians from the survey team were shot while in Albania. As they had conflict in the past, Italy accused Albania of planning the incident, and demanded a large fine. Greece had gone to the League of Nations for help, but Mussolini had persuaded them, and Greece had ended up paying. -
Success in making peace between Greece and Bulgaria
Both Greece and Bulgaria have a common border. In 1925, sentries patrolling this border fired on one another and a Greek soldier were killed. The Greek army invaded Bulgaria as a result. The Bulgarians asked the League for help and the League ordered both armies to stop fighting and that the Greeks should pull out of Bulgaria. The League then sent experts to the area and decided that Greece was to blame and fined her £45,000. Both nations accepted the decision. Thus the League of Nations was abl -
UN oficially formed
On 1945, October 24th, the United Nations was officially formed. The United Nation was created in order to obtain peace within nations. This day acts as a success for them, because this day is now celebrated as “United Nations day” -
UN: publishes Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1948, May 11th, the United Nations had published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This acted as a huge success for the United Nations, because they were promoting the rights for every human being. -
UN Success: Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the U.N. was used as a podium by the United States to challenge the Soviet Union’s placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The embarrassment of public indictment was instrumental in forcing the Soviets to remove the missiles. U.N. military forces (provided by member states) have conducted over 35 peacekeeping missions providing security and reducing armed conflict. -
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IMF/World Bank Loans for Projects
Between 1986 and 1993, 15% of World Bank loans were for projects (such as dams), which forcibly displaced 2 million people. This was seen as a failure, as 2 million people were affected negatively. Also, the 15% of World Bank loans for the projects were not seen as effective by society. -
IMF failure in Eastern Europe
In 1986, in Eastern Europe, the IMF imposed a SAP in Yugoslavia, which devalued the dinar. The resultant inflation is considered a contributing factor to the already tense environment of ethnic tension and nationalism, which has led to the current conflict throughout the region. The result has been widespread unemployment, and in the case of Poland going from 0% in 1990 to 15% in 1993. Therefore this is seen as a failure on the IMF’s part. -
Evaluation Report IMF failure
In 1990 there was an evaluation report addressing another one of IMF’s failures. It was found that projects in the Northeast of Brazil benefited 100,000 owner companies while excluding most of the targeted 3 million low-income families from credit and agricultural services, as well as from the design of projects. -
IMF failure: report on projects in India
As another failure, an internal report on projects in India in 1991 reported that "project performance and economic viability have been poor all along for most projects" for many reasons, including cost and time overruns, declining construction and maintenance standards, and environmental degradation. -
UN Failure to help starving citizens
In 1993, a U.N. mission failed to prevent local warlords from seizing food intended for starving citizens of Somalia. A U.S.-led U.N. military campaign to apprehend the warlords resulted in the disastrous Battle of Mogadishu. -
UN failure to respond to genocide
in 1994, the U.N. peacekeeping forces under the direction of current Secretary General Kofi Annan failed to respond to the genocide in Rwanda in which over 800,000 Hutus and Tutsis were killed by the Rwandan military and militia groups. -
GATT treaty signed for WTO
On 1994, May 11th, the GATT treaty is finally signed for the World Trade Organization. This is a huge success for WTO because it is the beginning of it all. -
IMF failure: Peso Collapse
The December 20, 1994 peso collapse was a failure in ways of which Mexico faced an economic disaster. The Mexican government devalued the peso on December 20th, and there was a financial crisis that resulted in “cutting the peso’s value in half”. This sent “inflation soaring, and set off a severe recession in Mexico” -
UN failure to solve killings in Srebrenica
In 1995, U.N. peacekeepers in the area failed to intervene during killings in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina despite the fact that the U.N. designated it a “Safe Haven” for refugees. The Bosnian Serb army massacred accounts report over 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks. -
Protestors disrupt WTO meeting
On 1999, May 14th, there were at least 30000 protesters that disrupted the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, USA. -
WTO Doha Round Success
The Doha Round in November 2001 was a success for the WTO. Their aim was to obtain massive reform of the international trading system through the introduction of lower trade barriers and revised trade regulations, and successfully, they were able to reach those goals. -
China and Taiwan joing WTO
On December 14th, 2001, the World Trade Organization succeeds in receiving more members, such as China and Taiwan. China had joined formally first, and Taiwan had followed shortly after.
