Why was the League able to achieve some successes in the 1920s in dealing with international disputes?
how should i answer this?
thanks

Good question - I don't know of any site which looks at why it succeeded! This webpage looks at some of the successes of the League in the 1920s, (and you will need to study it because it will supply the evidence you need to answer the question).

I think your essay will just consist of a series of paragraphs, each dealing with a different reason.
Do you know how to 'PEE' in a paragraph.
All you need to do is to 'PEE' for each of the ideas you have as to reasons.

Your answer to this question will consist of your matching the strength of the League (see this webpage) to the successes of the League (see this webpage).


Reasons the League succeeded - three reasons I would suggest are:

1. General desire for peace after WWI
Lots of countries joined and signed the Covenant - Community of Power - Moral persuasion etc.
You can see this happening in a number of cases.

2. Arbitration - Court of International Justice.
There are examples of this working.

3. Sanctions
Hmm - I can't think of any examples of these being applied in the 1920s, off hand - but I do know they failed to stop Italy in 1935.

4. Economic prosperity
I think this was crucial. Really, nobody needed to stick their heels in or cause an international incident because everybody was doing alright thank you. It was when the economic depression began to bite that countries like Japan, Italy and Germany began to want to expand, and they then just ignored the League.


After you have written about these, I would suggest you finish with a conclusion which looks at the Corfu incident.
If you study it, you will see that the League was utterly unable to make Italy do anything, and settled the incident by instead bullying the smaller nation - ie, if I were writing this essay I would finish by suggesting that the League appeared successful in the 1920s because the only countries it had to deal with were little bully-able countries such as Greece, Sweden and Bulgaria.
And even then - if a country was determined to fight (e.g. Poland in 1920), the League could not stop it.
The League was successful only because the nations of the world LET IT BE SO - this quote by HAL Fisher is the key:

thanks for your help , now i understand how to do it.

Oh MrJohnDClare i want to ask if you can help me on something else. Do u have any predictions of what topics are likely to come up in this summer's cie igcse paper? maybe the teachers in this forum who teaches IGCSE can help as well?

thanks

PLEASE don't play the predictions game - it'll only end in tears.

Learn the stuff.