Unit XI: Inter-war years Study Guide

IB Syllabus Goals: League of Nations and inter-war years

• Structure and work of the League

• Search for collective security, alliances and treaties, eg: Rapallo and Locarno

• Economic problems, Wall Street crash, Depression

• The breakdown of collective security and the decline of the League

Study Questions:

1. Why may the new states that emerged after 191 be called accidents of war? With what major problems

did they have to contend?

2. What threats to the Weimar republic arose from the left? From the right? What persistent problems did

the republic face?

3. What were the weaknesses/successes of the League of Nations?

4. What impact did the Great Depression have on the world economy? Why did it lead to a resurgence of

economic nationalism?

Quotes:

1. “Democracy made advances after 1919 even in countries that had long been in large measure

democratic.”

2. “The Weimar republic, of which the Social Democrats were the main architects in its formative years,

was remote form anything socialistic.”

3. “The treaties signed at Locarno marked the highest point of international good will reached between the

two World Wars.”

Identification:

* map of Europe post WWI inter-war years

Weimar republic “new democracies”

Universal suffrage Sparticist uprising

Kapp putsch treaty of Rapallo

Occupation of Ruhr war debts

Allied Reparations Commission 1921 Dawes Plan

Kellogg-Briand Pact economic depression

Lausanne Conference Maginot Line

Collective security Washington Naval Conference 1921-22

John Maynard Keynes London Naval Conference 1930

Search for security Locarno 1925

League of Nations