History League of Nations

CORFU

• Mussolini occupied the island of cofru in 1923 after the murder of an italian diplomat.
• He demanded financial conpensation and an apology.
• The league demanded the money be given to them instead.
• Mussolini overturned this and recieved the money and the apology. THIS MADE THE LEAGUE LOOK WEAK

FRENCH OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR

• Germany failed to keep up with the reperation payments.
• France invaded and occupied the ruhr (industrail region) in germany in 1923.
• The league didn't do anything
• usa helped solve the situation with the dawes plan
• france withdrew in 1925

Manchuria 

• japan controlled the machurian railway. in 1931 they used an excuse of a disturbance to send troops to invade the rest of manchuria.
• they pretended to give them independence by giving them a weak leader that they could control.
• LON send lord lytton to assess the situation. he produced the lytton report which said the japanese were wrong
• the league did nothing lol
• First major challenge for league; the whole world saw it fail to confront the japanese
• Japan refused to accept the lytton report and left the league in 1933, japan continued to invade.
• Hitler and mussolini saw these weaknesses in the league

Abyssinia

• mussollini turned italy into a dictatorship. (mussolini was on britain and fracnes side at the beginning (1930's))
• reasons why... italians wanted revenge for a previous war, abyssinia was well positioned to add to their collection of countries, mussolini saw that japan got away with manchurian crisis so the LON weren't a big d
• october 1935, mussolini sent troops to invade
• abyssinian leader appealed to league for h.e.l.p
• the league banned economic sanctions (restrictions upon international trade) but delayed banning oil exports because they were scared usa wouldn't support. 
• they didn;t close the suez canal to itlalys ships so supplies got through anyway oops. 
• may 1936, all of abyssinia was conquered.
• the league looked inefective and their reputation was embarrasing. 
• mussolini then became more confident and started making pacts with hitler.