WORLD WAR I
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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The League was banned from selling arms to Abyssinia. This left Abyssinia defenceless against Mussolini’s modern army.
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Italy decided to ignore these trade sanctions.
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It took two months to decide what else to ban Italy from trading with other countries.
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The ban on goods sold to Italy did not include oil, steel, iron or coal. If they had been banned then Mussolini would have had to stop his invasion as he needed these to fuel war machines like tanks.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the League’s economic sanctions fail in the Abyssinian Crisis? The League’s economic sanctions against Italy were ineffective because the trade of some key goods could not be prevented. ❖ Britain didn’t want to sanction its coal exports to Italy as this might cause unemployment for British miners.
Detailed explanation-2: -The League of Nations ruled against Italy and voted for economic sanctions, but they were never fully applied. Italy ignored the sanctions, quit the League, made special deals with the United Kingdom and France and ultimately annexed and occupied Abyssinia after it had won the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
Detailed explanation-3: -In response to Ethiopian appeals, the League of Nations condemned the Italian invasion in 1935 and voted to impose economic sanctions on the aggressor. The sanctions remained ineffective because of general lack of support.