History
Seventh grade
WORLD AT WAR
International relations. Aggression of totalitarian states
- lesson outline -
In the early years of the interwar period, efforts were made to preserve peace and
security in the world:
1. the League of Nations began its activity ;
2. alliance treaties were signed between different states;
3. The Locarno Pact was signed (1925), through which Germany and its neighbors,
France and Belgium, guaranteed their borders;
4. France and the United States of America concluded, in 1928, the
Briand-Kellogg Pact (then signed by 63 states), through which they proposed the
elimination of war from international relations;
5. Romania's activity within the League of Nations (Nicolae Titulescu, 1931 -1932).
6. the alliance system of small states:
- bilateral alliances: obtaining guarantees for defense: alliances between
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia and France;
- collective alliances:
• 1921 – Little Entente: Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia; • 1934
– Balkan Entente: Romania, Turkey, Greece,
Yugoslavia;
Peace and borders could not be maintained – causes:
o Germany's non-payment of war debt (Ruhr crisis); o revisionist states
- triggered aggressive foreign policy actions.
ÿ in 1933, both Japan and Germany withdrew from the League of Nations
Nations. o
establishment of totalitarian regimes; o
Anglo-French conciliationism .
In 1931, Japan attacked China – conquered Manchuria