League in the 1930s -3
- Created by: sammylc54r
- Created on: 12-04-17 17:28
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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
- Left league in March 1933
- 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
- Didn't want to trade boycott or economic sanction
- Britain wanted good trading relationships
- Not even banning sale of arms
- Japan do not accept terms
- Lytton report
- 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
- Hoare-Laval Pact 1935
- League Actions
- 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
- powerful nations ignored moral condemnation
- Structure
- Slow organisation
- TofV Set up League
- 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
- No final decision reached
- Everyone disarm to level of G? Or G arm to the level of everyone else?
- Limit Armaments -attended by 61 countries
- Manchuria, 1931
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