should leave Manchuria, Japan walked out of the meeting. • Japan stayed in Manchuria. • The League could not agree economic sanctions or an arms sales ban. • In 1933 Japan resigned from the League, and invaded/ conquered Jehol (next to Manchuria). • In 1937 Japan invaded the rest of China. A SPECTACULAR failure: The League was discredited Manchuria showed: • It was slow (the Lytton Report took almost a year) • A country could get its own way if it ignored the League ‘Collective security' was useless against big countries - especially during the Great Depression. • Even the great powers within the League (Japan was on the Council) were happy to ignore it. Abyssinia Independent African nation, rich in raw materials. October 1935 Italy invaded. The Abyssinian Emperor Halie Selassie asked the League of Nations for help. The League did not want a clash with Mussolini. Britain and France wanted him to be their ally against Hitler. The Hoare-Laval Pact (a secret agreement to give the rich areas of Abyssinia to Italy) was drawn up. As result of the Pact and the subsequent failure of the League, weaker countries realised they could not depend on the League for Help. Hitler invaded the Rhineland. It showed that the League could not make collective security work. In October 1936 Hitler and Mussolini made the Rome-Berlin Axis Agreement: another world war was looming. Why did the League fail? It WAS DUMB! – ‘powers’ Weak the League’s were virtually useless. Sanctions did not work (Failed to stop the sale of arms to during the Abyssinian crisis). It had no army. – the strongest nation in the world never joined. Britain and France were not strong enough America to impose peace on their own.
should leave Manchuria, Japan walked out of the meeting. • Japan stayed in Manchuria. • The League could not agree economic sanctions or an arms sales ban. • In 1933 Japan resigned from the League, and invaded/ conquered Jehol (next to Manchuria). • In 1937 Japan invaded the rest of China. A SPECTACULAR failure: The League was discredited Manchuria showed: • It was slow (the Lytton Report took almost a year) • A country could get its own way if it ignored the League ‘Collective security' was useless against big countries - especially during the Great Depression. • Even the great powers within the League (Japan was on the Council) were happy to ignore it. Abyssinia Independent African nation, rich in raw materials. October 1935 Italy invaded. The Abyssinian Emperor Halie Selassie asked the League of Nations for help. The League did not want a clash with Mussolini. Britain and France wanted him to be their ally against Hitler. The Hoare-Laval Pact (a secret agreement to give the rich areas of Abyssinia to Italy) was drawn up. As result of the Pact and the subsequent failure of the League, weaker countries realised they could not depend on the League for Help. Hitler invaded the Rhineland. It showed that the League could not make collective security work. In October 1936 Hitler and Mussolini made the Rome-Berlin Axis Agreement: another world war was looming. Why did the League fail? It WAS DUMB! Weak – the League’s ‘powers’ were virtually useless. Sanctions did not work (Failed to stop the sale of arms to during the Abyssinian crisis). It had no army. America – the strongest nation in the world never joined. Britain and France were not strong enough to impose peace on their own.
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