Categorías: Todo - conference - failure - league - germany

por Luciana Lin hace 5 años

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Disarmament

During the 1920s and 1930s, efforts to achieve disarmament were largely ineffective, damaging the League of Nations' credibility, particularly in Germany. Despite some international agreements, no significant progress was achieved in reducing military capacities, and many countries were actually increasing their armament expenditures.

Disarmament

limit the size of artillery

limit the tonnage of tanks

prohibit chemical warfare

Disarmament

Events related to Germany

July 1932
September 1932

December 1932

January 1933

February 1933

May 1933

June 1933

October 1933

Hitler withdrew from the Conference and took Germany out of the League

Britain produced a disarmament plan but it failed

Hitler promised not to rearm if the others did the same

Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and started to rearm secretly

Germany was coming back to the Conference

An agreement was finally reached to treat Germany equally

The British sent a note to the Germans to make an agreement

Their superior tone angered the Germans

The conference failed to agree the principle of equality, the Germans walked out

German disarmament

The conference have a big problem
Most people thought the Treaty of Versailles was being unfair
What to do about Germany

Germans should be allowed to rearm

Everyone should disarm to the level of Germany

Disarmament Conference

Got under way in February 1932
ended in 1934
by July 1932 it had produced resolutions

but there was very little in the resolutions to show these limits would be achieved

prohibit bombing of civilian populations

After the Manchurian crisis
League realised the urgency of the problem

Reasons for its failure

British signed an agreement with Germany

It allowed Germany to build up a reduced navy

It did not help that Britain and France were divided on this issue

In the 1930s there was increased pressure for the League to do something about it

Germany had been forced to disarm and they had long been angry

No other country had done the same
They were not prepared to give up their own armies

many countries were actually spending more on their armaments

than they have done before the 1stWW

In 1920s League largely failed in bringing about it

it didn't seem to serious because some international agreements have been done
failure was damaging League's reputation in Germany