It Was The Abyssinian Crisis That Destroyed The League of Nations As An Effective Peacekeeping Body. Discuss

There were also other powerful countries, USSR, and Germany, who despite losing the war were still a powerful country.

Britain and France were left to lead the League, a job neither wanted. Both of the countries were weak from the strain of the Great War. In view of that fact they were, fathomable, more worried about their own economies than about what was happening in the League.

Without the powerful nations it meant that sanctions were very hard to enforce. If trade sanctions were imposed on punishing countries, that country could still trade with countries outside the League.  And even if the League wanted to create a war then nobody had a big enough army to spare enough men of weapons. Resulting in countries like Japan and Italy could get away with anything.

Another reason, the League didn't have a standing army, they couldn't stop aggressive countries if they decide to start a war, their only weapon was a trade threat. This set a bad example to aggressive countries, because they’d get away with what ever they wanted to. Like with Mussolini when he was attacking Corfu. The League could not physically do anything to stop him; they could only talk with him. The basically sided with him because Italy was a much bigger nation than Greece, so the League got way with breaking the rules (Woodrow Wilsons 14 points). So they set a very bad example to other countries, which made the League look weak and powerless. They were also too slow at making decisions and they all had to meet up and agree which took a while.