How effective was the League of Nations in maintaining peace?

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How effective was the League of Nations in maintaining peace?

After the First World War, Woodrow Wilson supported the establishment of a peace-keeping organization. Under his influence, the League of Nations was founded in 1920. However, it failed to keep peace efficiently.

The League of Nations could only solve the disputes amongst small nations. In 1920, it settled a dispute between Finland and Sweden over the Aaland Islands. It also settled the boundary problems between Poland and Germany. It stopped Greece from attacking Bulgaria. By sending a commission of representatives from various powers to the Albanian region, the league successfully settled the dispute between Yugoslavia and Albania.

In the first decade after the First World War, the League of Nations did work well in keeping peace. However, after the Great Depression, the League of Nations did nothing to stop the aggression from ambitious powers. In the 1930s, it could not stopped the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Italian expansion in Abyssinia (1936) and Albania (1938), the German expansion in Austria, and the Sudetenland (1938), Czechoslovakia and Poland (1939), the Soviet expansion in Poland, Baltic states, and Finland (1939). The League of Nations could