AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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Rubber
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Oil
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Tin
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Armaments
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Detailed explanation-1: -The League failed to solve the crisis as they did not ban supplies of oil, coal, rubber and iron as they knew that non-members would continue to sell these to Italy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The League’s unwillingness to impose an oil sanction and its evident failure to prevent Italy’s conquest of Abyssinia discredited the League and its collective security provisions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The League banned weapons sales, and put sanctions on rubber and metal. The Abyssinian Emperor Haile Selassie went to the League to appeal for help, but it did nothing else – in fact Britain and France secretly agreed to give Abyssinia to Italy (the Hoare-Laval Pact). The League had failed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some historians believe that the Abyssinian crisis destroyed the credibility of the League of Nations. It was the British and French foreign ministers, Hoare and Laval, who secretly planned to carve up Abyssinia and give a chunk of the country to Mussolini. Hoare and Laval lost their jobs because of this idea.