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The birth of the League
The League of Nations was an organisation that could solve international problems without resorting to war. After the WW1 everyone wanted to avoid repeating the mass slaughter of the war that just ended. -
1920s conflicts
The League sometimes failed to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. In 1920, the Poles captured Vilna (the capital of Lithuania) and refused to withdraw when the League ordered it to; the League could do nothing. And when, in 1923, Lithuania seized Memel, a German port under League control, the League told Lithuania to leave, but the Conference of Ambassadors gave Memel to Ligue. The League could not stop wars when powerful nations were involved. -
1920s agreements
It stopped border disputes turning into wars. The highest point of the League’s work was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, an Act of the League’s Assembly, supported by 65 nations, which outlawed war. The League also improved people’s lives. The Health Committee worked against leprosy and malaria. The League closed down four Swiss companies which were selling drugs, and attacked slave owners in Burma and Sierra Leone, setting free 200,000 slaves. -
The Treaty of Versailles is created
The Versailles Treaty is a peace treaty signed on June 28, 1919 between the Allied Countries and Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles that officially ended the First World War (then called The Great War). It entered into force on January 10, 1920. -
Corfu
The Corfu incident was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis between Greece and Italy. It was triggered when an Italian general heading a commission to resolve a border dispute between Albania and Greece was murdered in Greek territory along with members of his staff. In response, Benito Mussolini issued a severe ultimatum to Greece and when it was not accepted in whole, dispatched forces to bombard and occupy Corfu -
Bulgaria
The Incident at Petrich, or the War of the Stray Dog,[1] was a Greek–Bulgarian crisis in 1925, in which there was a short invasion of Bulgaria by Greece near the border town of Petrich, after the killing of a Greek captain and a sentry by Bulgarian soldiers. The incident ended after a decision of the League of Nations. -
The Geneva Protocol
The Geneva Protocol is a protocol to the Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War signed on the same date, and followed the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. -
Germany is admitted to the League of Nations
Germany, after the Locarno Pact 1925 managed to secure negotiations for Germany to join. In September 1926, Germany was admitted to the League, to join all the other great powers. This was a great honour for Germany to be considered an equal power alongside the First World War victors. -
The general treaty for renunciation of war
The Kellogg–Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them" -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression started in the United Statesr. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II -
Manchuria Crisis
The Mukden Incident, or Manchurian Incident, was an event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria -
The Disarmament Conference
The Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments of 1932–1934 (also known as the World Disarmament Conference or the Geneva Disarmament Conference) was a failed effort by member states of the League of Nations, together with the United States, to accomplish disarmament. It took place in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, from 1932 to 1934 -
Japanesse army invaded Manchuria
On September 18th, 1931, in violation of all its treaty obligations, Japan occupied Manchuria, in northeast China. The Japanese wanted to expand their control over Manchuria so on September 18, 1931; the Japanese planted a small explosive device next to the tracks owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railroad near Mukden. -
Hitler as Chancellor
Hitler attained power in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month, giving expanded authority. President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Germany leaving the L of N
Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations when it refused Germany's bid to build its military to a level equal to that of the other major powers. This was Hitler's symbolic move to reject the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany after World War I. -
USSR joins the League of Nations
USSR joins the League of Nations. September 18, 1934 general meeting of the League of Nations adopted a resolution on the admission of the USSR into the League and the inclusion of its representative to its Board as a permanent member -
Abyssinia Crisis
The Abyssinia Crisis was an international crisis in 1935 originating in what was called the Walwal incident in the then-ongoing conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia (then commonly known as "Abyssinia"). -
WW2 begins
On September 1, 1939, the German army invaded Poland in a bloody attack, in which large numbers of soldiers and civilians died. In response, the governments of France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany on September 3 of that same year. -
The end of The League of Nations
The League of Nations was officially dissolved in April 1946, although its last Assembly was held after the war ended, between April 8 and 18, 1946, and its legal dissolution did not take place until July 17 of the following year, His files and assets were then transferred to the newly created UN.