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Student Archival Essays
- Australia and the Interwar Internationalism Movement
- In her study of the League of Nations Union in Britain, Helen McCarthy argues that “the League of Nations inspired a rich and participatory culture of political unrest, popular education and civic ritual." Was the same true in Australia?
- Interwar Internationalism: Refugees
- A Broad Unity for Peace: An historical examination of the International Peace Campaign’s Australian Peace Congress, 16th – 19th September, 1937
- Interwar Feminism in Australia and the League of Nations
- What were the primary factors in the failure of the League of Nations Union in Australia to create what Helen McCarthy terms a ‘rich and participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual’?
- Analyze how the ‘Myth of Collective Security’ was cultivated and evolved in Britain, compared to Australia by the LNU
- The League in Nations: the Effects of Identity
- Paths to Peace: A comparison of the voluntary peace groups in Britain and Australia
- The League of Nations: Lessons and Legacy
International Law
The interwar years mark a period where peace was strived for, yet war was not outlawed. Therefore, a number of International Laws were implemented with the hopes of restoring world peace and organizing world order. The Treaty of Versailles, for example, marked the end of the Great War and legally required Germany to accept full responsibility of the war efforts through the war guilt clause and also ordered territorial change. This resulted in 25 million minorities living in new states in the post-Versailles world.[1] Similarly, the 1925 Locarno Pact, which improved European diplomatic relations and began the ‘spirit of Locarno’, which resulted in the admission of Germany into the League and realistic hopes for world peace.