Failure of the League of Nations in the 1930s
In the 1930s the world became a much more difficult place for the league to deal with. The reasons for this happening was because of things such as the great depression, the failure to reach any agreement about disarmament, aggressive policies by Japan in Manchuria and by Italy in Abyssinia and also the aggressive policies of Hitler's Germany. For starters the league always had a problem with its members and by 1933 Germany, Japan and Italy all left the league with led to the people of thinking that the league is weak and ineffective and won't really make a change and improve life for people all over.
The effects of the great Depression
In 1929 the Wall Street crash in the USA sparked off an economic depression throughout the world. Millions of people were thrown out of work. This made the leagues work harder in many ways such as the trade between countries like the USA putting tariffs on imports from outside to protect their own industries and jobs. This damaged relations between countries. Another way that this made the league work harder is to rescue its industry from collapse. And also to distract the Italian peoples attention away from Italy's economic problems. Some countries like Britain did not want to get involved in setting international disputes while they had economic problems like high unemployment. Another effect was that in Germany the economic depression led to Hitler being elected to power. He promised to overthrow the treaty of Versailles and take back by force the land Germany had lost at Versailles. This led to Frances refusal to disarm and she started building up her defences.