League of Nations

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  • The end of the First World War

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    The Establishment of the League of Nations

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    Post-war crises

  • The Paris Peace Conference - Allied leaders meet and draw up Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties.

  • The League of Nations set up to sort out disputes between nations fairly.

  • 1921 Washington Conference

    USA, Britain, France and Japan agreed to limit the size of their navies.

  • 1922 Rapallo Treaty

    The USSR and Germany re-established diplomatic relations.

  • Crisis in Germany as France invades the Ruhr and inflation makes money worthless.

  • 1924 The Dawes Plan

    To avert a terrible economic crisis in Germany, the USA lent money to Germany to help it to pay its reparations bill (see page 242 of history textbook).
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    Improving international relations

  • The Locarno Treaties - Germany appears to accept the Treaty of Versailles.

  • Germany joins the League of Nations

  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact: most nations agree not to go to war to settle international disputes.

  • 1929 Young Plan

    Reduced Germany's reparations payments.

  • The Wall Street Crash - followed by worldwide economic depression.

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    The Manchurian crisis - Japan begins building a Pacific empire.

  • Japan leaves the League.

  • Germany leaves the League.

  • Hitler becomes leader of Germany.

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    Deteriorating international relations

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    Germany rearms

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    The Abyssinian crisis - Italy invades Abyssinia

  • German troops enter the Rhineland.

  • Itlay leaves the League

  • Chamberlain's policy of appeasement culminates in the Munich agreement.

  • Hitler invades Poland.

  • Start of the Second World War.