The League of Nations   

AQA SYLLABUS CONTENT:

• Why did the League of Nations fail in its aim to keep peace?

• Membership 1919–1939: why and how it changed; implications for the League of Nations

• Organisation, powers and peace keeping role: the Assembly; the Council; the Permanent Court of Justice; military and economic sanctions.

• The Manchurian Crisis 1931–1933: events; action taken by the League; effect on the League as a peace-keeping force.

• The Abyssinian Crisis 1935–1936: events; action taken by the League; effect on the League as a peace-keeping force.

• The reasons for the collapse of the League.

OCR SYLLABUS CONTENT:

• To what extent was the League of Nations a success?

  • What were the aims of the League?

  • How successful was the League in the 1920s?

  • How far did weaknesses in the League's organisation make failure inevitable?

  • How far did the Depression make the work of the League more difficult?

  • Why did the League fail over Manchuria and Abyssinia?

• The aims of the League, its strengths and weaknesses in structure and organisation.

• Successes and failures in peacekeeping during the 1920s; disarmament

• The work of the Court of International Justice; the ILO and the Special Commissions.

• The impact of the World Depression on the work of the League after 1929.

• The failures of the League in Manchuria and Abyssinia.

Contents:

1. Aims

2. Strengths and Weaknesses

3. The 1920s

4. Manchuria

5. Abyssinia

6. Why the League failed

7. Self-test

Plus:

• Revision sheet

• Hard-copy booklet

• Exemplar AQA Assessment

• Exemplar OCR Assessment

Links:

The League of Nations - Views from the web

  International relations 1919-39: basic narrative overview

Peace to War 1919-39: clear overview aimed specifically at the old AQA GCSE.

- BBC debate-podcast on whether the League was a success

- Giles Hill's podcast on forming the League

- Scott Allsop's podcast on the League in the 1920s

- Giles Hill's podcast on the failure of the League

- quirky view

A League of Nations timeline

History Learning Site (excellent)

In this module you will learn:  

• The FOUR aims of the League of Nations [SIDE].

• How many members the League had in 1919 and in the 1930s.

• THREE countries who weren’t members of the League (and why).  

• The four main members of the league.  

• Four strengths of the League.  

• THREE weaknesses of the League.  

• FOUR powers of the League.  

• EIGHT parts of the League’s organisation.  

• NINE successes of the League in the 1920s.

• FOUR failures of the League in the 1920s.

• TWO failures of the League in the 1930s and their effect on the League.

• SEVEN reasons why the League failed in the 1930s [WAS DUMB].