1. What is the story behind these pictures?
(Our last hope) $
What is the story behind these pictures?

2. History HL
Revise everything we have done for practice exam.
DUE

3. Why is the ‘Great Depression’ called the ‘Great Depression?’

4. Can you use arrows to complete this flow diagram and explain how the Wall Street Crash and Depression impacted the League of Nations?

6. Looking at the map, which countries might want it?
1931
The red area is called Manchuria. This area was desirable because it had fertile farmland and was rich in natural and industrial resources.
Looking at the map, which countries might want it?
RUSSIA
MONGOLIA
CHINA
JAPAN

7. W.A.L.T
Understand why Japan wanted to take over Manchuria and how they used the Mukden incident as a reason to do so.

8. Why in 1931 (and not before) did the Japanese decide to take over Manchuria?

9. Why Japan felt that they had a claim to Manchuria…
Zhang Zoulin, failing Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria and ignored the Chinese government.
The Japanese Kwantung army which was based in Manchuria.
Japan had built and ran this railway.
Japan already had large factories and mines operating in Manchuria.

10. Why Japan felt that they had a claim to Manchuria…
Write a letter from a general in the Japanese army in 1931 explaining why it’s a good idea to invade Manchuria. Use these pictures to help you remember the four main reasons.

11. Sum up the Mukden Incident in 50 words maximum
It all started with a train…
Sum up the Mukden Incident in 50 words maximum

12. If I were to set a homework to build on today’s learning, I would ask the class to….

13. First 5-10 minutes…
Finish your MADtime work started MONDAY, don’t forget to ask for verbal feedback.
Re-read your notes from before half term on the Manchuria crisis. Be able to say from memory:
Why Japan wanted Manchuria;
Why they took it in 1931;
What the Mukden incident was.

14. What can you explain in this source?
What can’t you?

15. What do you think it said?
This is Lord Lytton.
He was sent to Manchuria in April 1932 by the League of Nations. His job was to investigate what had happened between Japan and China and decide who was in the wrong. In October 1932 he published the Lytton Report.
What do you think it said?
The Lytton report criticised Japan. It said that they had over reacted and should not have invaded.

16. It had taken the League of Nations 1 year and 1 month to make a decision about the Manchuria crisis.
Why do you think they had been so slow and so reluctant to get involved?
See if you can figure out the true and false reasons on your tick sheet.

17. Reason the LoN was so slow to get involved in Manchuria
True?
False?
The League did not want a big fight especially as so many people felt that the Japan owned Manchuria anyway.
The League was angry with China for causing them trouble at a time when the Great Depression was impacting the world.
The League was based in Geneva, Switzerland. To Britain, France and the others it felt like this problem was so far away that it wasn’t a big worry.
The Japanese claimed that the invasion was retaliation after their train had been attacked by Chinese soldiers.
The Japanese threatened to invade Mongolia if the League didn’t accept what they had done.
Japan was a powerful and respected member of the League.
China’s government was a mess and much of it was under the control of warlords. Many members of the League thought it was a good idea that Japan was taking control of such a valuable area.
The Chinese government had said that they didn’t want the League’s help with sorting out Manchuria.
Countries such as Britain and France were still in economic depression and could not afford to send troops so far away.
Economic sanctions would not impact Japan badly because its main trading partner was the USA (not part of the League).
The nearest powerful country was the USSR. The League could not ask for help here as they had not let them join.

18. Reason the LoN was so slow to get involved in Manchuria
True?
False?
The League did not want a big fight especially as so many people felt that the Japan owned Manchuria anyway.
The League was angry with China for causing them trouble at a time when the Great Depression was impacting the world.
The League was based in Geneva, Switzerland. To Britain, France and the others it felt like this problem was so far away that it wasn’t a big worry.
The Japanese claimed that the invasion was retaliation after their train had been attacked by Chinese soldiers.
The Japanese threatened to invade Mongolia if the League didn’t accept what they had done.
Japan was a powerful and respected member of the League.
China’s government was a mess and much of it was under the control of warlords. Many members of the League thought it was a good idea that Japan was taking control of such a valuable area.
The Chinese government had said that they didn’t want the League’s help with sorting out Manchuria.
Countries such as Britain and France were still in economic depression and could not afford to send troops so far away.
Economic sanctions would not impact Japan badly because its main trading partner was the USA (not part of the League).
The nearest powerful country was the USSR. The League could not ask for help here as they had not let them join.

19. Reasons why the LoN was slow to act in Manchuria
CHALLENGE:
Add 3 reasons from memory
ASPIRATION:
Add 5 reasons from memory

20. History HL
Find out about Mussolini then write 5 sentences in your own words on the most important facts about him.
DUE

21. Reasons why the LoN was slow to act in Manchuria
Look at somebody else’s spider diagram. What have they missed? Add on facts in green pen.
Reasons why the LoN was slow to act in Manchuria
CHALLENGE:
Add 3 reasons from memory
ASPIRATION:
Add 5 reasons from memory

22. What can you explain in this source?
What can’t you?

23. Glue in your timeline
What do you think is the most important event on it?
Why?

24. Picture from Punch magazine published in England in December 1932
SOURCE A
Picture from Punch magazine published in England in December 1932
Q2. How useful is Source A to a historian studying the consequences of the Manchuria incident? (12 marks)

25. Can you and your partner use the info sheet to figure out what the crisis of 1935 was?
Can you and your partner predict how the League might handle this problem?

26. Why did Italy’s Mussolini want Abyssinia?

27. Abyssinia timeline creation
1. Scan over page 47, note down on rough paper the key dates in the Abyssinia crisis. These will be the dates on your timeline.
2. Create your timeline (1 horizontal page or 2 vertical pages depending on the size of your writing).
3. Add dates and details, alternating text above and below the line.
The Abyssinia Crisis
December 1934
The Wal Wal clash (150 Abyssinians + 2 Italians killed)
January 1935

28. Source A: Cartoon from Punch magazine, 1935
Source A shows that people criticised the way the League of Nations handled the Abyssinian crisis. How do you know?

29. Why didn’t the League help Abyssinia?

32. Yes to buying oil and coal
Italy
No to buying weapons
No to selling goods
Yes to buying oil and coal
Abyssinia
No to buying weapons

33. Reason why the League didn’t help Abyssinia
Explanation

34. Reason why the League didn’t help Abyssinia
Explanation
The British and French owned the Suez Canal. They didn’t want to close it because…..
IMPACT:
Samuel Hoare (British) and Pierre Laval (French) met in secret in December 1935 with the Italian Ambassador. They agreed….
Their plan backfired when…
Trade sanctions against Italy banned the buying and selling of….
But not…
Trade sanctions against Abyssinia banned the selling of…
LA version.

35. May 1936: Italy left the League of Nations
DUCE = nickname for Mussolini
May 1936: Italy left the League of Nations

36. Individual questions…
1. Why did trade sanctions against Mussolini fail?
2. The Hoare-Laval Pact was never put into action but was very significant. Why?
3. Which situation do you think the League handled the worst – Manchuria or Abyssinia? Why?

37. History HL
•Write an account of why the League of Nations failed to keep peace in the world. (8 marks)
•DUE

38. Ladies and gentlemen,
In this, the last ever International Court of Justice, we are gathered to investigate, question and decide…
What goes here?

39. W.A.L.T.
Decide which country was most to blame for the death of the League of Nations.

40. The Judges: 1. 2.
Japan
Britain
Italy
France
The U.S.A. ?

41. Aims of your country in the trial:
The Judges: 1. 2.
Aims of your country in the trial:
Be found ‘not guilty’ of killing the League of Nations;
Convince the judges to find one of the other countries guilty.
Japan
Britain
Italy
France
The U.S.A. ?

42. In our class trial today on which country was to blame for ‘death’ of the League of Nations, the outcome was….
I do/do not agree with this outcome because…