Edexcel IGCSE History Research Study Question With Correct Answers

Stop wars Improve lives Disarmanent Enforce Treaty - correct answer What were the 4 main aims of the League of Nations? S I D E 1921 - correct answer In what year was the Aaland Island dispute? They decided that Finland should keep the island but would not be able to keep any weapons there. - correct answer How did the league solve the dispute over the Aaland Islands? 1921 - correct answer In what year was the dispute in Upper Silesia? That we decided to partition the land after the plebiscite and both sides excepted the decision. - correct answer How can we be said to have been successful over Upper Silesia in 1921? In 1922 to 1923 the only helped arrange loans to Austria and hungry. In 1924 the league solved the dispute between Turkey and Iraq in favour of Iraq. - correct answer Explain to other successes of the League in the 1920s. It worked to prevent leprosy,yellow fever, malaria, ended typhus epidemics. - correct answer What success did the health committee of the league have? Set 200,000 slaves free in Sierra Leone. - correct answer Explain a success of the slavery commission. It arranged for the repatriation of 400,000 First World War prisoners. - correct answer Explain how the commission for refugees was successful. - correct answer When was the Washington Conference? Trying to limit tension in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the USA. - correct answer What was its main concern? I was organised by the USA. - correct answer Explain how the Washington Conference made the League look weak? The USA and Britain will have navies of equal size and Japan would have 3/5 of the size of Britain and France's navy. - correct answer What were the two main agreements from the Washington Conference? Russia and Germany. - correct answer Who signed the Rapallo Treaty? It allowed Germsny access to most of the weapons banned in the Treaty of Versailles. - correct answer How did the Treaty of Rapallo make the League look weak ? Fiume was populated by mostly Italians but was given to Yugoslavia - correct answer Why was Italy not happy with the outcome of the Paris Peace treaties? 1923 - correct answer When was the dispute between Italy and Greece? 50 million lire - correct answer What did Mussolini say that Greece had to do as a result of the dead Italian members of the Conference of Ambassadors? Bombed and invaded Corfu. - correct answer What did Mussolini do when Greece refused to pay 50 million lire? The League of Nations who condemned Mussolini. - correct answer Who did the Greeks appeal to for help with Mussolini and what did they do? The Greeks had to pay 50 million lire and Mussolini claimed Corfu. - correct answer What was the outcome of the Corfu crisis? Not very well - correct answer How did the League look after the Corfu Crisis? Solved problems caused by the Ruhr Valley Crisis. - correct answer How did the Dawes Plan help international relations? Briand - France Chamberlain - Britain Stresemann - Germany - correct answer Who were the 3 key players at the Locarno Conference in 1925 and what countries were they representing? Nobel Peace Prize - correct answer What were the three key players of the Locarno Conference awarded with? 1925 - correct answer What year was the Locarno Conference? Germany, Britain and France agreed to accept the existing borders as set up by the Treaty of Versailles. - correct answer What was the territorial outcome of Locarno? The League of Nations - correct answer What did Germany join as a consequence of the Locarno Conference? It was not arranged by the League of Nations. - correct answer How did the Locarno Conference make the League look weak? 1928 - correct answer In what year was the Kellog-Briand Pact? 15 - correct answer How many countries signed the Kellog- Briand pact? If the League had been trusted to ensure that another war would not occur then the pact would not have been signed. - correct answer How did the Kellog-Briand pact undermine the League? 1929 - correct answer When was the Young Plan signed? Help Germany pay off her reparations - correct answer What were the terms of the Young Plan? January 1933 - correct answer When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany? 6 million - correct answer How many people were unemployed when he Nazis party came into power? - Overthrow the Versailles Treaty. - Make Germany a great power. - Unite all Germans in one country. - To create living space. - correct answer What were Hitler's 4 foreign policy aims? The depression contributed to the collapse of the Weimar Republic. - correct answer What were Hitler's 4 foreign policy aims? Japan adopted an aggressive foreign policy to gain more land so that they could get out of their economic depression. - correct answer Explain the link between Japan's foreign policy in the 1930s and the Great Depression. - Army became more influential. - Japan needed to recover from the Wall St Crash. - Japan was becoming ove