Preventing+War

** Preventing War ** Preventing War was one of the aims of the League of Nations, however he League failed to solve all major disputed during the 1930s before war broke out. For example, the league failed to stop the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. It also failed to stop the Second World War from starting.

There are several reasons for the fact that the League could stop wars between nations: - The league needed unanimous votes, which often meant that they didn’t come to a decision. - Sanctions were ineffective. The aggressor could just keep on trading with the USA. - The league didn’t have any army, so the aggressor didn’t feel threatened. - The depression encouraged strong powers to invade weak countries, in order to get cheap raw material.

The more times the league failed, the less power they had. By the time that World War two started, the league had become completely irrelevant.

// Why the League Failed //. Web. 06 Mar. 2012. .
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