Why did the League of Nations fail in the 1930's

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Why did the League of Nations fail in the 1930's?

The League of Nations came into existence on the 10th January 1920. It came into existence on exactly the same day that the Treaty of Versailles came into operation. The League of Nations was based in Geneva, Switzerland. When the League came into existence , it had aims which were to stop war and settle international disputes, to improve people's lives and to improve people's jobs. It also had another aim which was to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. The structure of the League was the Secretariat, which was supposed to so-ordinate the different functions of the League and a disadvantage of the secretariat was that there were too few secretaries to do the work who were also slow. There was also the Council which met four or five times a year. There were five permanent countries which were Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Germany.

The Assembly came next which was the League of Nations main meeting which was held only once a year. The decisions were made at the Assembly only by an agreed vote. The Committees were in charge of the Court of international justice, health, labour organisation, refugees, mandates and slavery. At the start of the League, 42 countries joined but this had rose to 60 by the 1930's. This shows me that as more countries joined the League, it was respected more. The leading members of the League were Britain and France, which were helped by Japan and Italy. During the 1920's, the League was functioning successfully as it solved a number of minor international disputes.
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Supporters of the League felt confident and hopeful about the League's future in 1930. By the economic crisis which started in 1929 brought right-wing governments to power in Germany and Japan, this was seen as a threat to continuous world peace. However, no matter how hopeful and optimistic the supporters of the League of Nations were about the future in 1930, there was a downfall in the League. The League's authority was challenged quite a lot of times by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and later by the Italian attack on Abyssinia. My reasons for this are that ...

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