1. “The Doormat” – To what extent is this an accurate assessment of the League of Nations in the 1930s?

2. What was the impact of the Great Depression?

3. The Manchurian Incident 1931
HOW and WHY do the Sources differ?

4. Why did Japan invade China?

6. What did the League do?

7. What was the impact of the League’s response?
Japan left the League (1933)
The Japanese kept Manchuria and made the former Emperor of China (“Henry” Pu Yi) a puppet ruler of Manchuko (the Japanese name for Manchuria)
Japan went on to capture Jehol, the province just north of Peking.

8. Why did the League fail?

10. Use the Sources that I will hand out to you and complete the following PP1 questions (N01) :
5, 6, 7, and outline an answer for 8.

11. Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1935

12. What happened?

13. What happened?
In 1930, Italy built a fort at Walwal, an oasis in the Ogaden. The fort was in clear violation of the Italo–Abyssinian Treaty of Friendship. The Italians built the fort as part of a gradual encroachment into what was clearly Ethiopian territory.
On September 29, 1934, Italy and Abyssinia released a joint statement refuting any aggression between each other.

14. Wal Wal Incident

15. Why Abyssinia, Muss?

16. Why Abyssinia, Muss?

17. “God and history will remember your judgment.”

18. What did the League do?

19. What did the League do?

20. Why did the League fail?

21. Significance

22. Task
Complete the PP1 Activity at the end of the “20th Century….” .pdf file
1,3, and outline/brainstorm 4

23. “The Doormat” – To what extent is this an accurate assessment of the League of Nations in the 1930s?