1. Las Cumbres – HISTORY Senior I August 2013
The League of Nations in the 1920s.
1. What were the aims of the League?
2. What happened to Wilson when he returned to USA after signing the
Treaty of Versailles?
3. Why did German immigrants in USA not want to join the League?
4. What economic reason did USA give to stay out of the League?
5. How did Americans feel about Imperialism in Europe?
6. Why did Poland invade Vilna? Why did the League not act about it?
7. Why was Upper Silesia an important region for Poland and Germany?
8. How did the League solve the conflict in Vilna?
9. What did the League decide to do about the Aaland Islands?
10. Why did Mussolini invade Greece in the Corfu conflict?
11. Why was the League criticised about the resolution in the Corfu
conflict?
12. How did the Geneva Protocol weaken the League?
13. Why did Greece invade Bulgaria in 1925?
14. Why did Greece complain that the League “seemed to have one rule
for the large states (such as Italy) and another for the smaller ones.”