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League of Nations failures
Great depression meant that countries focused on themselves and couldn't pay to fight other peoples wars (LON didnt have its own army)
Countries started invading others for land to make moe money
Abyssinian Crisis
Italy wanted an empire and saw it as an easy target
Wal Wal incident soldiers clashed 150 abyssinians (using very old weaponry), 2 italians died
Italy only received moral condemnation so invaded fully after
The league could've closed the suez canal to make it more difficult for mussolini to invade but they wanted to keep mussolini as an ally
Britain refused to stop trading steel and coal with Italy to prevent mining unemployment
Italy just left the league in 1936
Why it was weak
It had no army of its own
Even with economic sanctions countries could still trade with rich and powerful non-members like USA
The structure made descions take ages to make
descions had to be unanimous which was very rare
Main assembly only met once a year
The four permanent members could get away with anything (Britain, France, Japan, Italy)
Manchuria crisis
Japans main export silk was worth less so they needed more land to make money from
Mukden incident- Japan blew up a train line and blamed china as an excuse to invade
Lytton report took a year to make and blamed Japan, Japan refused to accept it and just left the league