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GCSE History · key term
The written agreement setting out the League of Nations’ aims, organisation and members’ obligations; it formed part of the 1919 peace settlement.
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Paper 1
Revise: The League of NationsThe League’s Covenant formed part of the Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919, and the other Paris peace settlements. The League came into existence in January 1920, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Its first Assembly that year brought together 42 member states.
Paper 3
The Solemn League and Covenant: an agreement linking Parliament and its Scottish allies to religious reform, including the removal of bishops.
Distinguish the Covenant’s promises from what members actually did. Collective security depended on governments cooperating.
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Charles was to sign the Covenant, which would also be imposed on his subjects. Episcopacy, or church government by bishops, was to be abolished. The churches in England and Ireland were to be reformed along Presbyterian lines, using elders and assemblies rather than bishops.