The only 2 major powers of LoN
that had to make the League work
were Britain and France. They had
already suffered a lot from the loss
at the ww1. Stabilizing their own
country took priorities before the
League priorities leading to WW2
Japan left the
league after
League criticism
for invading
Manchuria in 1933
Italy was a part of League
but left it after invading
Abyssinia in 1937
Successes and failures
of the LoN
Successes
Refugee Organisation
Health Organisation
Economic and Financial Organisation
International Labour Organisation
Slavery
Commissions
Disarmament
Commissions
failures
Pacts and agreements made outside
the League in secret.
Manchurian Crisis – Causes,
events and consequences
Causes
Japan was very badly from the depression. japan was
sufficient with food and depends upon its imports to feed
its rapidly rising population. Manchuria would give Japan
everything they needed at that time. Manchuria was
wealthy, rich in mineral wealth, a good source of food and
raw materials and land for the rising Japanese population.
Events
Japan invaded Manchuria at 1931
and had control over Manchuria
until 1933
A Special Assembly of the League was held in
February 1933 (17 months after the Japanese
invasion)
In 1933, Japan invaded Jehol, the
Chinese province next to Manchuria.
Consequences
The Abyssinian Crisis
Made people lose faith in the LoN
Encoraged Mussolini
and Hitler
Abyssinian Crisis. – Causes, events
and consequences.
Causes
Italy was unhappy with the peace
settlement as it did not receive as
much land as the allies promised.
Italy wanted to
increase his
popularity by
forming a new
Roman Empire
Mussolini wanted some of the natural resources
Abyssinia had to offer. Abyssinia would also
provide a market for Italy to trade with.
Events
In December 1934 a clash happened
between Italian and Abyssinian
soldiers at Wal-Wal on the border
between Abyssinia and Italian
Somaliland.
Italy invaded Abyssinia
in October 1935
Italy walked out of the League in May
1936 and sanctions ended in July.
In 1936 Mussolini signed the
Rome-Berlin Axis with Hitler,
which ended the hopes of
France and Britian to keep him
as an ally against Hitler.
Consequences
This crisis marked the
end of the League as a
means to keep the peace.
Hitler had taken
advantage of the crisis
when he had reversed
the Treaty of Versailles
and marched troops
into the Rhineland in
March 1936.
Japan joined Germany and Italy in 1937 also,
renaming it the Anti-Comintern Pact. Italy formally
left the League in 1937. Europe was once again
clearly dividing into two sides.