LoN

Question 1

Why did the League of Nations fail? (3 pts)

Answer 1

• Structural weakness
• Membership issue
• Great power interests

Question 2

Structural weakness

Answer 2

• assembly must reach a unanimous decision on all resolutions
  Hard for anything to be effectively decided upon
• American isolationism ; USA, one of the more powerful countries, did not join

Question 3

Membership issue

Answer 3

• there was limited membership. Not all important countries were in LoN
• the league had no standing army, and was unable to effectively enforce its decision
• only league members can be sanctioned, non-league members are unchecked

Question 4

Great power intrests

Answer 4

Britain and France wanted Italy and Japan as a possible ally against Hitler and USSR - did not want to stop their aggression
- League hampered when its conflicts with Britain and France policies