LEAGE OF NATIONS

TESHEN DISPUTE 1918-1920

• Teritorial dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia
• They were fighting for land that had iron, and coal
• Both presented their case at the Paris Peace Conference
• The land was divided evenly into two different countries

WHY IT WAS SUCCESSFUL

• The countries agreed on the treaty
• They stopped fighting

THE INVASION OF THE RUHR

• Germany could not pay all the reperation because they were too high
• Some were raw materials, so Germany's factory were unable to functiom
• As a result, Germany's economy broke down

THE INVASION OF THE RUHR

• There was conference because of the unpaid reperation
• France & Belgium wanted to occupy the Rheinland
• They wanted to do that to make the Germans pay more
• France's and Belgium's request was not done

INVASION OF THE RUHR

• Failed delieveries of timber and coal by Germans after conference
• France did not tolerate it any more

THE INVASION OF THE RUHR

• France occupy center of coal, iron, and steel production
• 130 Germans got killed in occupation
• Resistance and protest by Germans

THE INVASION OF THE RUHR

• France was pressured to pay concessions to Germany
• They were pressured to do so by the British labour minister
• The British labour minister thought reperations after the war were to high