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WorksheetsIGCSE Successes of the League of Nations' Agencies
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
What was the reason for setting up the League's agencies, committees and commissions?
The League wanted to identify social, economic and military issues that directly or indirectly affected the wellbeing of the world.
After the Paris Peace Conference, everyone loved going to meetings and wanted to attend more.
At the end of each committee or commission meeting they served cake.
Woodrow Wilson said they should.
What were the main issues for the Refugee Organisation? There are two correct answers.
The large number of WWI Prisoners of War stranded in Soviet Russia, Poland, France, Germany and Turkey.
Refugees in North Africa.
Over 1 million Greeks were homeless following the Turkish War of Independence (1919-23).
Returning Allied troops to Australia and New Zealand.
Who was in charge of returning displaced persons to their homes, or helping them to find new homes?
Woodrow Wilson
The British Monarchy
Norwegian explorer and scientist, Fridtjof Nansen.
The Secretary-General of the League, Eric Drummond.
What were three of the achievements of the Health Organisation?
Getting everyone across Europe to eat 5+ a day.
It helped Soviet Russia prevent a typhus epidemic in Siberia.
It helped reduce the incidence of leprosy.
It began an international campaign to exterminate mosquitoes, thereby reducing the spread of malaria and yellow fever.
What did the Health Organisation help to set up in London, Copenhagen and Singapore?
24 hour pharmacies.
Research institutions which developed internationally accepted vaccines for diseases like tetanus, tuberculosis and diphtheria.
Research hospitals.
Holiday homes for doctors.
After the League failed, what did the Health Organisation become?
Greenpeace.
Médecins sans frontières(Doctors without Borders)
The World Health Organisation (WHO).
The World DHB.
Which country on the edge of financial collapse was helped by the Economic and Financial Organisation?
Germany: they were crippled by reparations.
Turkey: they were in the grip of civil war.
United Kingdom: they just needed more money.
Austria: they were adjusting to being a small landlocked country now dependent upon agriculture for its wealth.
Which other countries were assisted by the Economic and Financial Organisation? Choose three.
Hungary
Greece
France
Bulgaria
What was the main objective of the International Labour Organisation?
To make sure everyone across Europe had a job.
To conduct on the job training.
To raise the minimum wage.
To bring about a general improvement in working conditions.
Which of these were recommendations of the International Labour Organisation? This question has more than one correct answer.
The 8 hour working day and 48 hour working week.
Annual holidays with pay.
The right to join trade unions.
A minimum employment age.
The International Labour Organisation also dealt with Heath & Safety in the workplace. What was one of their important messages?
That working over 48 hours a week could cause heart disease.
That the use of white lead in paint manufacturing was dangerous to health.
That everyone needed to eat lunch in a cafeteria.
That everyone needed to wear closed-toe shoes at work.
What were the two main objectives of the Slavery Commission?
To stamp out slavery and slave dealing.
To put an end to other exploitative practices like trafficking.
To meet once a week.
To run classes for those who had been trafficked.
What three methods did the Slavery Commission use to achieve their aims?
Persistent enquiry of member states: getting them to complete questionnaires and requesting reports.
Publication of reports.
Constant coaxing of governments that were slow or reluctant to take effective action against slavery and trafficking.
Lots and lots of telegrams.
What were three of the successes of the Slavery Commission?
Eradicating illegal trafficking.
200,000 slaves were freed in Sierra Leone.
The death rate for African workers on the Tanganyikan railway went from 50% to 4%.
Iraq, Jordan and Nepal abolished slavery altogether.
Which of the following is true about the Disarmament Commission?
It was the most successful commission as all member states agreed to disarm, and then did.
It made the most disappointing progress of all the League's agencies and commissions.
It closed down after only a month.
It was an abject failure.
What was the Disarmament Commission's minor success?
Getting the defeated powers to disarm.
Organising the Washington Naval Conference of 1921 where the US, Britain, France and Japan agreed to limits on their naval activities.
The World Disarmament Conference of 1932-34.
They agreed on technicalities like definitions, classifications and methods of armaments counting.
