In this short essay I will analyze four crisis situations in which the League of Nations showed its successes and failures. We say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayThe first crisis situation is the conflict that arose due to Swedish nationalism/self-determination within the Aaland Islands as the citizens wanted to be governed by In Sweden, however, the 2 nations failed to make a decision, with the consequence that the League of Nations was called upon to make the decision. The League's response: The League decided to give the Aaland Islands to Finland on the condition that the islands remained demilitarized (most likely because the islands were located between Finland and Sweden, thus giving Finland an advantage in case they invaded Sweden). successful for the League of Nations since their goals were to prevent conflict, which they did since both nations had accepted the suggestion resulting in a diplomatic agreement. The second crisis situation called Upper Silesia (pro-Germany voters VS pro-Poland voters). After the First World War the citizens of Upper Silesia had the opportunity to vote for which country they wanted to be a part of. The votes were 700,000 for Germany and 500,000 for Poland. As a result of these close numbers, communities were divided, which led to riots and conflicts between the two sides. The League of Nations decided to separate Upper Silesia, with one half being part of Germany and the other being part of Poland, allowing citizens to choose which region they want to be part of. This was also a success as the League of Nations had prevented riots/conflicts from increasing in Upper Silesia and had also led to a diplomatic agreement between Germany, Poland and the citizens of Upper Silesia. The third crisis situation is the Corfu incident (Italy VS Greece). Following a border dispute between Italy and Greece, Italy had sent the Italian general Enrico Tellini. Unfortunately, a Greek nationalist group attacked the general and his men, resulting in his death. The murder of the military general and his men led Italy to send an ultimatum to Greece, which included an official apology, a proper funeral for the men in Athens, trial of those responsible and compensation of 50 million lire. Greece had responded and accepted the demands but, unfortunately, with modifications, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini believes that Greece should have accepted without any negotiations. As a result, Italy sent a part of its navy to attack the island of Corfu and occupy it. This led Greece to appeal to the League of Nations. What was not expected was that Italy would rather leave the championship than allow them to resolve it. Because he wanted the conference of ambassadors to deal with the situation. The Conference of Ambassadors had to find new terms to resolve the dispute and communicated this to Italy, Greece and the League of Nations. Italy and Greece subsequently accepted the terms. This was a failure for the League because it was not them who did the negotiations, it was the Conference of Ambassadors who convinced the League of the terms because if the League committed, Italy would leave the League which could result in conflict /war. The latest crisis situation is Mosul Province (1924) (Great Britain VS Türkiye VS Iraq). After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, there was a dispute between Britain (which had occupied it at the time) and Turkey, and finally Iraq, over the former Ottoman territory of Mosul. Great Britain.
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