Zusammenfassung der Ressource
T2 - The LofN - 30's
- Economic depression
- US reclaimed loans
- Little money = little trade = even less money
- Military policy
- Japan, Germany, Italy
- Britain and France prioritise themselves
- Manchuria, 1931
- Japan relied on trade with China
- Wall Street Crash killed trade
- Japan couldn't feed people
- 'China' blew up railway
- Army overran the area
- Claimed it was dealing with a 'local issue'
- Army had control of policy
- Government was ignored
- Lof N delayed for 1 year
- Japan was already lodged in
- Japan condemned but LofN ignored
- No action taken
- Disarmament
- Germany walked out of conference
- Wouldn't agree to practical measures
- eg. banning chemical production
- More money spent on arms
- LofN ignored
- Abyssinia, 1935
- FR and GB wanted Italy as ally
- They just talked
- Imposed economic sanctions
- Rubber, coal, arms, loans, imports, tin, metals
- Didn't close the suez canal
- Secret deal to 'give' 2/3
- Hitler remilitarised Rhineland
- FR terrified
- Reasons for failure
- Treaties were unfair
- Too slow
- USA and USSR not in LofN
- Self-interest of GB, FR
- Weak sanctions
- No troops