Unit One > Chapter 10

Basic Knowledge Guide:

1. What was the League of Nations to be a guarantee against?

2. How wide was its membership intended to be?

3. What was the first proposed method for dealing with aggressors?

4. If that failed, what was the second?

5. Why, according to Howarth, has the U.N. succeeded where the League of Nations failed?

6. Which one of the Big Three refused to join?

7. What was the consequence of that nation's failure to join the League?

8. What other great powers were excluded form the League?

9. Which were the only two great powers in the League?

10. What were mandates under the League, and how effectively did they work?

11. What incident in 1923 did the League successfully resolve?

Links:

Another Active History game on the Treaty of Versailles. http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/games/cannon/gcse_versailles.html

An Active History "fling the teacher" game on the Peace of Paris. http://www.activehistory.co.uk/fling/quizzes/gcse_peacetreaties/quiz.htm

A self-marking quiz on the Active History site on the Peace of Paris. http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/Miscellaneous/hotpots/gcse/peacetreaties/peacetreaties.htmVerdicts on the Treaty -

John Clare's revision page on the Big Four and what they got or failed to get in the Peace of Paris. http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties6.htm

A Spartacus page on the League of Nations. A good review of the whole duration of the League between the wars. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWleague.htm

Books:

Macmillan, Margaret, Paris 1919 Random House, New York, 2001. A brilliant narrative account of the making of the treaties of Paris, with a lot of high interest detail about the personalities involved. Shows the ongoing relevance of the flawed peace they made. It also reveals a lot about the impact of individual personalities on the negotiations.