were given equal rights, including rights to vote. Industries and banks were nationalised. Land was announced as social property. Land was distributed to poor peasants.
Lenin thought the most important factor for the fall of Provisional government was its failure to withdraw from World War. So Lenin immediately appealed for peace. Unmindful of the harsh terms dictated by the Central Powers, Lenin opted for withdrawing from the War to concentrate on the formation of new government. In March , the Treaty of Brest– Litovsk was signed.
Outbreak of World War I and Its Aftermath in at The Hague. The court was made of fifteen judges. The International Labour Organisation comprised a secretariat and general conference which included four representatives from each country. Objectives of the League The two-fold objective of the League of Nations was to avoid war and maintain peace in the world and to promote international cooperation in economic and social affairs.
The League intended to act as conciliator and arbitrator and thereby resolve a dispute in its early stages. If wars break out despite arbitration, the members should apply sanctions to the aggressor first economic and then military. The difficulty in achieving the objectives was increased from the beginning by the absence of three Great Powers namely USA (did not become a member), Germany (a defeated nation) and Russia. The latter two joined in and .
While Germany resigned in , Russia was expelled in . Activities of the League The League was called in to settle a number of disputes between and . The League was successful in three issues. In a dispute arose between Sweden and Finland over the sovereignty of the Aaland Islands.
The League ruled that the islands should go to Finland. In the following year the League was asked to settle the frontier between Poland and Germany in Upper Silesia, which was successfully resolved by the League. The third dispute was between Greece and Bulgaria in . Greece invaded Bulgaria, and the League ordered a ceasefire.
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