Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Manchurian Crisis
- Why did the crisis happen?
- Because Manchuria was very important to Japan.
- The railyway was their only way of getting food to the country
- The railway was blown up and Japan blamed China
- How did the league react to this?
- They sent someone to file a report
- The league wanted to be careful not to upset Japan as they were on the council of the leauge
- The league couldn't use economic sanctions because USA was the main country that traded with Japan and USA never joined the leauge
- What was the outcome of the crisis
- A year later the Lytton Report came out in favour of China being innocent
- Japan Ignored the report
- What were the results of the crisis?
- Japan left the league in 1933
- In 1937 Japan invaded China and the league did nothing
- Why did the league fail to resolve this crisis?
- Because they didn't want to upset Japan
- Economic sanctions would have done nothing to affect Japan