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| What did the League of Nations do to improve the international health situation? |
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- They created the Public International Office of Hygiene: Leaders from different countries gather together to discuss issues of public health
- Limited drug production and use
- Trying to create a global healthy society and prevent the spread of epidemic diseases
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- Border disputes between Paraguay and Bolivia
- These two countries want the Chaco region because it is oil- rich
- A US oil company supported Paraguay and a Dutch oil company supported Bolivia
- The war ended when both sides exhausted their resources
- The Chaco Peace conferences was arranged by the involved parties in Buenos Aires in July 1938.
- The league of nations was not involved
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| What did the League of Nations do to handle refugees following WWI? |
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- They created the Nansen passport which allowed refugees to travel back to their homeland after the new countries were made
- Was a success for the League
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| What did the League of Nations do to improve labour relations? |
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- Created the Labour Unions: negotiates the labour contract with the employer
- ILO (International Labour Organization) was founded by the League of Nations which dealt with labour issues, particularly international labour standards and decent work for all.
- Success for the league
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- Long lasting border disputes between Greece and Bulgaria
- Greek man crossed the border while chasing his dog
- Bulgarian sentry shot the man
- Greece invaded Bulgaria
- League got involved by ordering a cease fire, greek troops to withdraw and Greece had to pay compensation
- Success for the League
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| What did the League of Nations do to resolve the conflicts that repeatedly arose between states regarding slave trade? |
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- They were the first international body to create a slavery convention
- Temporary Slavery Commission: put in place to investigate and make recommendations accordingly
- Slavery convention put in place in 1926
- The League failed because they did not create a government body, no enforcement or regulation and no universal set of laws
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- Conflict over islands between Finland and Sweden
- The League came in to prevent war
- made the decision that the islands went to Finland but Swedish got guaranteed rights to a portion of the islands
- successfully resolved the conflict creating lasting peace between Sweden and Finland
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| What did the League do to deal with Drug Trafficking? |
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- League created OAC ( Opium Advisory Committee)
- Two conferences were set to decide on drug trafficking
- The first conference focused on only opium and opium manufacturing countries, second conference was more global and involved in a wider variety of drugs
- 1925 Geneva convention
- Turning point to making drug trafficking illegal
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- Lithuanian and Polish war
- Poland and Lithuania had a common enemy of Russia so Poland asked them to join their country and become one Poland
- Lithuania refused
- 1920- Soviet- Lithuania Peace treaty that Poland didn't know of
- Lithuania was helping Russia fight Poland
- Vilnius was land that both countries wanted
- In the end Vilnius was given to Poland but Lithuania still claims it as their capital
- The dispute is still in occurence
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- Italian General was murdered while doing work for the League in Greece
- Mussolini was angry and invaded the Greece
- The League condemned Mussolini and told him to leave Corfu
- He refused, so the League changed their decision and told the Greeks that they had to apologize to the Italians and pay compensation
- Failure of the League because Mussolini was able to overrule them
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| How did the League deal with economic problms? |
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- Organized a conference in 1920 to attempt to find a solution
- They established an economic and financial organization
- There is a fiscal committee that discussed general issues related to tax
- Economic committee had a lot to do with trade the surrounding policies
- In the following years the League assisted many European countries economically
- The Great Depression then affected Europe, showing that the League had failed
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