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Unit 1: World Order after WW1, Abyssinia Crisis: Clash between Italy…

- - - - temp. mixed commission on armaments
        
        formed to consider the problems of intl disarmaments, but failed to rch an agreement as the problem of how to ensure a country's security if it gave up its weapons remains unsolved
        
        signf: shows that countries had little confidence in LON's ability to prevent war since it has no army of its own (poor enforcement mechanism), thus motivating the to keep their national armies to protect self-interests (countries were still primarily concerned with their own security interests as these took priority over collective security interests)
      - Washington conference
        - called by USA and succeeded in reaching an agreement on commitment to and concrete steps towards disarmament by various great powers, like the Five-Power Naval Limitation treaty (USA, B, J, I, Fr)
        signf: shows that successful disarmament efforts could take place outside LON, since major powers like USA were not part of the league. weakness of LON like limited membership were critical and greatly hindered the leagues in achieving success