Dear Year 9 & 10,
Please ensure that you have revised following topics:
1.2 Peacemaking 1918–1919 and the League of Nations
How did the Treaty of Versailles establish Peace?
The Paris Peace Conference and the aims:
• Clemenceau
• Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson (the Fourteen Points)
The main terms of the Treaty of Versailles:
• Diktat
• Territorial changes
• Military restrictions
• War guilt and reparations
• The strengths and weaknesses of the Treaty of Versailles
• Why Germany objected to it.
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 peacekeeping force
The reasons for the collapse of the League