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League of Nations
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  • 1. When was the League of Nations established?
A) 1918
B) 1920
C) 1945
D) 1930
  • 2. Which country was a leading proponent of the League of Nations?
A) Italy
B) United States
C) Russia
D) Germany
  • 3. Where was the headquarters of the League of Nations located?
A) Geneva
B) New York
C) London
D) Paris
  • 4. What was the League of Nations' response to the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935?
A) No action taken
B) Military intervention
C) Diplomatic negotiations
D) Economic sanctions
  • 5. Which event led to the creation of the League of Nations?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War II
C) Cold War
D) World War I
  • 6. When did the League of Nations cease its operations?
A) 1946
B) 1939
C) 1965
D) 1955
  • 7. Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in creating the League of Nations?
A) Benito Mussolini
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 8. Which British diplomat was a key architect of the League of Nations?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Lord Robert Cecil
  • 9. Who was the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations?
A) Ferdinand Foch
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Sir Eric Drummond
D) Thomas Woodrow Wilson
  • 10. What was the maximum number of members the League of Nations had?
A) 45 members
B) 58 members
C) 100 members
D) 75 members
  • 11. Which country left the League in 1933, followed by Germany and Italy?
A) Japan
B) Spain
C) France
D) The Soviet Union
  • 12. What was one of the concerns of the League of Nations regarding global health?
A) Climate change
B) Epidemics
C) Space exploration
D) Ocean pollution
  • 13. What was the League of Nations' approach to sanction enforcement?
A) Immediate and severe
B) Strict and uncompromising
C) Irresolute, fearing it might spark further conflict
D) Non-existent
  • 14. What was the League of Nations' stance on colonial powers?
A) Expansion of colonial territories
B) The mandate system put colonial powers under international observation
C) Complete independence for colonies
D) No involvement in colonial matters
  • 15. What was the League's role in labor conditions?
A) It addressed just treatment of native inhabitants and working conditions
B) It promoted industrialization
C) It focused solely on child labor
D) It ignored labor issues entirely
  • 16. Which organization was a forerunner to the League of Nations?
A) The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
B) The United Nations
C) The European Union
D) The World Bank
  • 17. What was the League's stance on the arms trade?
A) It had no interest in the arms trade
B) It promoted unrestricted arms trading
C) It sought to regulate and control it
D) It encouraged private ownership of weapons
  • 18. Which country was granted the right to participate as an autonomous member nation?
A) South Africa
B) Canada
C) Australia
D) New Zealand
  • 19. What did the League of Nations lack that hindered its effectiveness?
A) Financial resources
B) Its own armed force
C) A permanent headquarters
D) International recognition
  • 20. Which country joined the League in 1934 but was expelled in 1939?
A) Italy
B) Japan
C) Germany
D) The Soviet Union
  • 21. What did Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points include?
A) Creation of a global currency
B) The establishment of the United Nations
C) A league of nations to ensure peace and justice
D) Immediate end to all colonial empires
  • 22. What was one of the proposed remedies for preventing future wars?
A) Expansion of colonial territories
B) Formation of military alliances
C) Creation of an international organisation with disarmament and open diplomacy
D) Promotion of secret diplomacy
  • 23. On what date was the proposal to create the League of Nations approved?
A) 28 June 1919
B) 19 March 1920
C) 25 January 1919
D) 16 January 1920
  • 24. Who discovered that the Rules of Procedure for the League were undemocratic?
A) Catherine Marshall
B) Gustave Ador
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Henry Cabot Lodge
  • 25. Which country withdrew from the League of Nations first among the founding members?
A) Japan
B) Brazil, in June 1926
C) Germany
D) Italy
  • 26. Which country rejoined the League in September 1933 after initially quitting?
A) Germany
B) Brazil
C) Japan
D) Argentina
  • 27. Which country became the last to join the League before World War II?
A) Italy
B) Egypt
C) Japan
D) Germany
  • 28. Which body was responsible for overseeing the League's health work?
A) The Permanent Court of International Justice
B) The Economic and Financial Organisation
C) The International Labour Organization
D) The Health Committee
  • 29. Who was the first chairman of the committee on international intellectual cooperation?
A) Albert Thomas
B) Werner Dankwort
C) Fridtjof Nansen
D) Henri Bergson
  • 30. When did the League of Nations lift its sanctions against Italy?
A) 15 May 1936
B) 4 July 1936
C) 31 December 1935
D) 1 January 1936
  • 31. What was the Mukden Incident also known as?
A) The Chinese Rebellion
B) The Japanese Invasion
C) The Korean Conflict
D) The Manchurian Incident
  • 32. What was one reason Soviet Russia was initially excluded from the League of Nations?
A) Soviet Russia did not apply for membership
B) Communist regimes were not welcomed
C) It was already a member of another international body
D) The US opposed its inclusion
  • 33. When did the Kingdom of Iraq join the League of Nations?
A) 1 September 1939
B) After World War II
C) 3 October 1932
D) 15 November 1920
  • 34. What did the staffers of the Disarmament Section generate that caused unrealistic expectations?
A) Unreliable information
B) Accurate economic forecasts
C) Detailed military strategies
D) Comprehensive peace treaties
  • 35. In what year was the report on international taxation principles prepared for the League of Nations?
A) 1945
B) 1939
C) 1918
D) 1923
  • 36. Who proposed the creation of a federation between Poland and Lithuania?
A) Georges Clemenceau
B) Paul Hymans
C) David Lloyd George
D) Woodrow Wilson
  • 37. Who argued that the Disarmament Section was a major failure of the League of Nations?
A) Haakon Ikonomou
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Wellington Koo
D) Julio Álvarez del Vayo
  • 38. In which year did the Sanjak of Alexandretta gain autonomy under League oversight?
A) 1937
B) 1938
C) 1926
D) 1939
  • 39. Which city was given to Lithuania by the Moscow Peace Treaty?
A) Warsaw
B) Vilnius
C) Minsk
D) Kiev
  • 40. How many mandatory powers were there for the fourteen mandate territories?
A) Fourteen
B) Ten
C) Five
D) Seven
  • 41. Who led the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in November 1935?
A) Emperor Haile Selassie
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Marshal Pietro Badoglio
D) Samuel Hoare
  • 42. What policy did Britain and France ultimately adopt in response to growing German militarism?
A) Preemptive war
B) Isolationism
C) Collective security
D) Appeasement
  • 43. Which country was accepted as a permanent member of the League Council in 1926?
A) Japan
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) Spain
  • 44. What did the Permanent Court of International Justice rule regarding unanimous decisions by the League Council?
A) They require further negotiation.
B) They must be accepted.
C) They can be rejected.
D) They are advisory only.
  • 45. What event led to Lithuania restoring diplomatic relations with Poland in 1938?
A) The signing of the Treaty of Riga
B) The League of Nations' decision
C) The Klaipėda Revolt
D) The Polish ultimatum
  • 46. What was the name given to Manchuria after its occupation by Japan?
A) Manchukuo
B) Korea-Manchuria
C) Nipponia
D) East Asia
  • 47. Which treaty attempted to resolve border conflicts between Colombia and Peru in 1922?
A) Salomón-Lozano Treaty
B) Kellogg-Briand Pact
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Roosevelt Corollary
  • 48. What was the new name given to the Sanjak of Alexandretta after gaining autonomy?
A) Alexandretta
B) Mosul
C) Hatay
D) Syria
  • 49. What was the reaction in Germany when the agreement became public?
A) Immediate acceptance without protest
B) Widespread approval and celebration
C) Indifference
D) Bitter resentment was expressed
  • 50. Which country conducted military operations in southern Albania, leading to instability?
A) Yugoslavia
B) Italy
C) Greece
D) France
  • 51. What was the first European international agreement concluded directly through the League of Nations?
A) The Kellogg-Briand Pact
B) The decision regarding the Åland Islands dispute
C) The Locarno Treaties
D) The Treaty of Versailles
  • 52. Which article of the Covenant of the League of Nations established mandates?
A) Article 5
B) Article 30
C) Article 15
D) Article 22
  • 53. Which country annexed Hatay in mid-1939?
A) France
B) Iraq
C) Turkey
D) Syria
  • 54. Who were the Yugoslav forces engaged with in northern Albania?
A) Greek troops
B) Albanian tribesmen
C) Italian soldiers
D) French forces
  • 55. When did the League of Nations abandon plans for a plebiscite in Vilnius?
A) July 1922
B) October 1920
C) March 1921
D) March 1923
  • 56. Who appealed to the League of Nations for international intervention on behalf of China?
A) General Francisco Franco
B) Wellington Koo, the Chinese representative
C) Julio Álvarez del Vayo
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 57. What was the total number of casualties for Bolivia during the Chaco War?
A) 20,000
B) 75,000
C) 57,000
D) 36,000
  • 58. In which year was the LONTAD project completed?
A) 2020
B) 2025
C) 2022
D) 2019
  • 59. In what year did the League of Nations award Mosul to Iraq?
A) 1923
B) 1925
C) 1924
D) 1926
  • 60. When did the agreement regarding Upper Silesia become public?
A) November 1921
B) May 1922
C) March 1921
D) August 1921
  • 61. How many pages of content do the League of Nations archives consist of approximately?
A) 10 million
B) 5 million
C) 20 million
D) 15 million
  • 62. Which mandate classification applied to parts of the old Ottoman Empire?
A) A mandates
B) C mandates
C) D mandates
D) B mandates
  • 63. Which U.S. president invoked the Neutrality Acts during the Abyssinian crisis?
A) Harry S. Truman
B) Herbert Hoover
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 64. What approach did the League of Nations' fiscal committee initially work towards for international taxation?
A) Multilateral tax treaties
B) No formal agreements
C) Bilateral tax treaties
D) Unilateral state decisions
  • 65. Which country abolished slavery in 1923 as a condition for League membership?
A) Ethiopia
B) Nepal
C) Transjordan
D) Iraq
  • 66. Who commanded a Polish military force that took Vilnius in contravention of the Suwałki Agreement?
A) General Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski
B) General Lucjan Żeligowski
C) Marshal Józef Piłsudski
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 67. During which crisis did the weakness of the League's collective security system become evident?
A) The Abyssinia Crisis
B) The Manchurian Incident
C) The Spanish Civil War
D) The Munich Agreement
  • 68. When did the Soviet Union invade Finland?
A) 23 August 1939
B) 17 September 1939
C) 14 December 1939
D) 30 November 1939
  • 69. Who was the President of Peru during the armed takeover of Leticia in 1932?
A) Óscar R. Benavides
B) Augusto Leguía
C) Luis Sánchez Cerro
D) Manuel Prado Ugarteche
  • 70. When did Lithuania officially remain in a state of war with Poland?
A) Until 1927
B) Until 1939
C) Until 1918
D) Until 1945
  • 71. Who represented Iraq in its foreign affairs during the Mosul dispute?
A) The British
B) The Turks
C) The French
D) The Americans
  • 72. Which town was ceded from Peru to Colombia as part of the Salomón-Lozano Treaty?
A) Bogotá
B) Iquitos
C) Leticia
D) Cusco
  • 73. What was a significant structural issue that led to the League's indecision?
A) Over-reliance on economic policies
B) Excessive military power
C) Lack of funding from member nations
D) Unanimous voting requirements
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