League in the 1930s -3

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  • League Of Nations 1930s
    • Manchuria, 1931
      • Lytton report
        • Took over a year to compile
        • Condemned Japan
        • Manchuria to be governed by the league
      • Japan Invade
        • China natural resources
        • Lied: China planted bomb on railway
        • 1923 - Taken over whole of Manchuria
        • China appeal - initially condemn Japan
      • Result
        • Japan do not accept terms
          • Left league in March 1933
            • Isolated until it found friends -Fascist dictators
        • Britain and France don't place sanctions
          • War on other side of world = bad
          • Economic depression 1930s
            • Didn't want to trade boycott or economic sanction
              • Could enter war- Without America
          • Britain wanted good trading relationships
          • Not even banning sale of arms
    • Abyssinia, 1935-6
      • League Actions
        • Haile Selassie appeals to league
        • 1935- Britain & France do nothing
          • Ally against Hitler
        • Called for 2 sanctions - stalled for 2 months, Fuel and oil?
        • Brit didn't want to stop coal trading - cost 30,000 jobs
      • Mussolini Invades, Oct 1935
        • Wanted to expand Italian empire
        • Abyssinia - Resources & next to Eritrea (part of empire)
        • Invades & demands territory
          • Encouraged by M crisis
      • Result
        • Hoare-Laval Pact 1935
          • Brits & French secretly agree to give Abyssinia to Italy
        • Tried certain bans
          • Bans on arms sales, rubber & metals -ineffective
          • But didn't close Suez Canal or ban oil sales
    • Reasons League failed : BUSTED UP
      • TofV Set up League
        • Hated treaty
      • Unsuccessful
        • Failures damaged reputation
      • Britain & France
        • Other priorities - didn't want to use armies
      • Dictators
        • Mussolini & Hitler would not compromise
      • USA, USSR & G
        • USA not member
        • USSR not until 1934
        • G not until 1926 -left in '33
      • Economic Depression
        • Countries acted to save own interests
      • Powerless
        • powerful nations ignored moral condemnation
          • League had no proper army
      • Structure
        • Slow organisation
    • Geneva Conference 1932-4
      • Limit Armaments -attended by 61 countries
        • No final decision reached
          • Conflicting views on G
          • Finished after G withdrew from league, no control of arms
      • Everyone disarm to level of G? Or G arm to the level of everyone else?

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