History – test review
Disarmament
What did the League do about disarmament in the 1920s?
- 1921 the USA, Japan, Britain and France agreed to limit the size of their navies, but that was all.
- 1923 the League’s first plan about the disarmament was accepted by France and other nations, but not Britain (they want to have army for later defence)
- 1926 the plan for a Disarmament Conference was made, but it took five years to agree even a ‘draft convention’ for the Conference, but that was even in 1933 rejected by Germany.
- International agreements of the 1920s that seemed to lead to a more peaceful world
- 1921 Washington Conference: USA, Britain, France and Japan agreed to limit the size of their navies.
- 1922 Rapallo Treaty: Russia and Germany re-established diplomatic relations.
- 1924 The Dawes Plan: to avert a terrible economic crisis in Germany the USA lent money to Germany to help it pay its reparations bill
- 1925 Locarno Treaties: Germany accepted its western borders as set out in the Treaty of Versailles. (one of the most important treaties)
- 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact: 65 nations agreed not to use force to settle disputes. This is also known as the Pact of Paris (one of the most important treaties), but there were nothing in the Pact about what would happen if a state broke the terms of the agreement.
- 1929 Young Plan: reduced Germany’s reparations payments.
- 1926 Germany entered the League, so now only the Soviet Union wasn’t in the League.
- The economic recovery also helped the League. They helped reduce tension and as the countries were trading with one another they were much less likely to go to war and fight.
