Focus points
• How far did weaknesses in the League’s organisation and membership make failure inevitable?
• How successful were the League’s attempts at peacekeeping in the 1920s?
• How important was the League’s humanitarian work?
• How far did the Depression make the work of the League more difficult in the 1930s?

Specified content
• The structure, aims and membership of the League
• Successes and failures in peacekeeping during the 1920s:– Vilna 1920– Aaland Islands 1920–21– Corfu 1923– Bulgaria 1925
• The League’s humanitarian work:– refugees– health– working conditions– slavery
• The League in the 1930s:– causes, events and consequences of the Manchurian crisis and of the Abyssinian crisis