For and Against The League - League's Failure Flashcards
What further events took place that made the League look ineffective?
1) Mussolini and Hitler agreed the Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936
2) In 1937 joined Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact
3) Invaded Albania in 1938
4) Signed the Pact of Steel with Hitler in 1939
Arguments in defence of the League?
1) The USA didn’t join so Britain and France had a difficult task
2) The Depression made everything tougher worldwide
3) No one could have stopped Italy, Germany or Japan. They could have worked with the League not against it
4) The League of Nations had to defend a settlement made at the end of WWI which many didn’t think was fair.
Arguments against the League?
1) The League should have resisted Japan in 1931
2) Too many members didn’t stick to the rules, and when attacked for it, they left: Germany and Japan in 1933, Italy in 1937
3) Britain and France didn’t lead strongly and were too slow
4) Members of the League who opposed aggression didn’t want war = kind of counter-productive
5) Ambitious leaders like Hitler weren’t dealt with harshly enough
6) It let the old system of secret alliances creep back
