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Why Did The League Of Nations Doomed To Fail

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The League of Nations was an international organization that came into existence in January 10, 1920 and officially collapsed on April 18, 1946. Prior to the outbreak of World War I, less efforts were made to improve how foreign affairs and conflicts were dealt. The aftermath of the war made nations realize that an international organization was needed to prevent an outbreak of another war. Thus, the League was established after the Paris Peace conference. Centered on the principle of Collective Security, the League’s aim was to maintain worldwide peace and resolve disputes in diplomatic means thus, avoiding military conflicts. It is ironic how the League failed to achieve its one job of maintaining peace and one can even argue that the League’s inefficiency caused World War II. The Abyssinian crisis is the biggest example of how the League was doomed to fail.
The League had failed to contain conflicts that eventually led to war. However, it is arguably the Abyssinian crisis in 1935 that highlighted the weakness of the League. Countries lost faith in the League of Nations and issues such as the German …show more content…

The League had already failed to assist China during the Manchurian Crisis in 1931 and the invasion of Abyssinia by Italy was a key moment for the League to prove itself however, it didn’t. The League could have taken effective measures such as closing the Suez Canal to stop Italy from getting supplies like oil and coal, but it didn’t as Britain and France feared to provoke Mussolini. . This made it obvious that major members of the League like Britain and France put their self-interest prior to the League’s objective of ‘collective security’ and maintaining world peace. Being the Leagues’ second betrayal of a member country in the League questioned the organizations’ necessity to exist and its credibility to protect weak

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