WORLD WAR I
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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Question
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Mussolini was too powerful.
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Italy and Abyssinia were both members of the League.
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Italy was a member of the League, Abyssinia was not.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -4) The League of Nation’s policy of collective security as expressed in Source A (Article 16 of the Covenant) was extremely difficult to apply to the Abyssinian crisis due to the complexity of the crisis and the number of member nations directly and indirectly involved.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many nations saw the League of Nations as powerless because it failed to fully address Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia. This helped encourage Hitler to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland later.
Detailed explanation-4: -This was because they feared that the Americans who were no longer part of the League wouldn’t support the sanctions and that their own economic interests would be damaged. Because this, the Italian army took over Abyssinia with little trouble. This was a devastating failure for the League.