WORLD HISTORY

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. Britain also feared that if they closed the Suez Canal, the Italian Army’s supply route to Abyssinia, their Navy would be attacked by Italian forces.

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: -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.

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.