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LoN Failure - Upper Silesia

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Upper Silesia 1921-1925

Both German and Polish people lived in Upper Silesia, so naturally, both countries claimed that they should own it.

Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia

  • Upper Silesia was on the border between Germany and Poland.
  • Both German and Polish people thought that they should own the region.
Plebiscite

Plebiscite

  • Britain and France agreed that there should be a plebiscite (vote) so that the people could decide on what they wanted.
  • The League of Nations even sent troops in there to make sure that the plebiscite was run fairly.
Result of the plebiscite

Result of the plebiscite

  • The result was that 60% of people wanted to be part of Germany.
  • This angered the Polish people in Upper Silesia, who complained to the League that this wasn’t fair or that they didn't like the result.
Result of complaints

Result of complaints

  • As a result, the League split Silesia into sections:
    • Germany got the rural land.
    • Poland got the industrial area.
  • Both countries wanted the industrial area as it was rich in iron, coal and steel production.
Further complaints

Further complaints

  • Although the terms of the partition of Silesia were agreed initially, in the end both Germany and Poland disagreed with it.
  • The Polish claimed they lost half a million of the Polish people to the land that now belonged to Germany and the Germans claimed that they lost too many coal mines.
Tensions

Tensions

  • The League of Nations then presided over discussions between Germany and Poland.
  • The two countries agreed on trading laws, economic benefits, citizens' rights and border control in the two parts of Silesia.
  • On the 15th May 1922, the German-Polish Accord on East Silesia was signed in Geneva.
  • As time went on, tensions between these two countries continued to worsen.
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Key Topics

1.1

Conflict & Cooperation 1918-1939

1.1.1The Treaty of Versailles1.1.2The Terms of Versailles 11.1.3The Terms of Versailles 21.1.4Versailles & the League of Nations1.1.5LoN Successes & Failures1.1.6LoN Failure - Upper Silesia1.1.7LoN Failure - Corfu & Washington1.1.8End of Topic Test - Treaties and Agreements1.1.9The Great Depression1.1.10Tension in Europe in the 1930s1.1.11WWII & Failure of the League of Nations1.1.12End of Topic Test - Tension in the 1930s1.1.13Grade 9 - Conflict & Cooperation
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The Cold War 1945-c.1989

1.2.1Emerging US-Soviet Rivalry1.2.2Communism in the 20th Century1.2.3The Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan1.2.4East-West Alliances1.2.5Berlin Crises1.2.6The End of the Berlin Wall1.2.7End of Topic Test - East & West1.2.8Build-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis1.2.9The Cuban Missile Crisis1.2.10Cold War Conflict - Vietnam1.2.11Cold War Conflict - Afghanistan1.2.12End of Topic Test - The Cold War 1945-19891.2.13Grade 9 - The Cold War1.2.14Diagnostic Misconceptions - Russia vs USSR1.2.15Diagnostic Misconceptions - Stalin & the Atom Bomb1.2.16Diagnostic Misconceptions - The Iron Curtain1.2.17Diagnostic Misconceptions - The Truman Doctrine1.2.18Diagnostic Misconceptions - USSR vs Eastern Europe1.2.19Diagnostic Misconceptions - The Berlin Airlift1.2.20Diagnostic Misconceptions - The Berlin Wall1.2.21Diagnostic Misconceptions - Hungarian Uprising1.2.22Diagnostic Misconceptions - Stalin's Death1.2.23Diagnostic Misconceptions - Cuba1.2.24Diagnostic Misconceptions - Bay of Pigs
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From the End of the Cold War to 9/11

1.3.1Reagan & Gorbachev1.3.2Consequences of the Soviet War in Afghanistan1.3.3End of Topic Test - End of the Cold War to 9/111.3.4Grade 9 - The End of the Cold War1.3.5Diagnostic Misconceptions - Fall of the Wall
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Changing Interpretations

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Changing Interpretations

2.1.1Appeasement2.1.2The Responsibility for Cold War Tensions2.1.3End of Topic Test - Appeasement2.1.4Grade 9 - Changing Interpretations

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