Early Acts of Appeasement
The Failure of the League of Nation
Japanese Occupation of Manchuria -1st ACT
Italian Occupation of Abyssinia -2nd Act
The End of The League of Nations
- USA doesn't join
- Germany joins 1926- pulls out in 1933
- Lack of enforcement (only economic sanctions)
- Too closely linked with the Treaty of Versailles
- Nationalism too Strong (big guys don't want little guys to tell them what to do)
- If countries weren't happy with the League of Nations, they could just drop out
Japanese Occupation of Manchuria -1st ACT
- Japan owns South Manchurian railway
- Military operation in 1931 claiming Manchuria
- 1932- Leagues Lytton Commission decides Japan to leave
- Japan quits the League- invades northers China
- League decided this conflict has no effect on Europe-ignores situation
- Mussolini and Hitler take notice of this
Italian Occupation of Abyssinia -2nd Act
- Italy had interest in colony since 1895 (now ethiopia)
- Mussolini wanted to expand his empire (imperialism)
- 1934 an incident is set up where Italians are killed
- Ethiopia appealed to the League
The End of The League of Nations
- League does not respond- Italy invades
- Economic sanctions threatened by league
- Hoare- Laval plan gives most of Ethiopia to Italy if fighting stopped
- Plan undermines the league
- People lose interest- Mussolini completes conquest
- Signals end of the league (still exists until 1945)
- 1935 Hitler introduces conscription in Germany
- France, Britain, and Italy form the Stresa front to condemn Hitler's actions
- 1935 Mussolini signs naval agreement with Hitler
- March 1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland (Breaking the Locarno Pact)
Subjunctive question: How would European history be different if the League of Nations was successful?
Quotes: "I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of theleague of nations as a tragic mistake."- Elliot Richardson
Quotes: "I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of theleague of nations as a tragic mistake."- Elliot Richardson
Summary: The early acts of appeasement, clearly define how the League of Nations failed. After the first couple countries dropped out, many more continued to do so.