What were the consequences of the failures o f the League in the 1930s? 193 0s? As above Because of the failure of the organization o rganization in the league, meaning that there was not an army in the League, this meant that the LON had to rely on other countries to support collective security and trade ban. However, many countries were reluctant to do this because it would actually be a disadvantage to them, since they will lose sales of export products and fewer profits. This was made further more impossible after the economic crisis resulting in the Wall Street crash in 1929. As a result, the consequence meant that Japan, in 1931-2 could successfully invade and defeat Manchuria without any either military or economic sanctions. Due to the unanimous policy of all decisions made by the members of the league, this meant that before a decision could take place, all of the member countries must agree. Because of this, this led to extremely slow decision making process, making the enemy to have the impression that the LON was weak. Furthermore, the consequence of this resulted in the slow response of the set up of the Lytton Commission of Inquiry. This commission, led by Lord Lytton, was set up i n December 1931, nearly 3 months after Japan attacked Manchuria in September 1931. Because of this, the Japanese government got a head start, defeated Manchuria, and renamed it as Manchukuo before the commission could finish its report. The failure to include big powers into the League, such as the United States, and the USSR (who was uninvited and entered a time of diplomatic isolation) had serious consequences. Without the power of big countries, this led to the dominance of only two member countries in the LON who had to work together in order to make collective security a success; Britain and France. It was unlikely Britain would help collective security because she saw no need to do so; she was happy with her overseas empire in general. With France, she was more worried about getting her reparations from Germany instead of helping out other countries by supporting collective security. Therefore collective security failed to some extent. The resulted in the consequence of the failure of aggressive countries to receive punishments; Japan never received any military or economic sanctions, and Italy did not receive trade bans on oil and petrol until it was already too late. The major consequence which sprouted from the Abyssinian Crisis in 1935 to 1936 was Hitler’s rise to power. Because collective security was only placed into the hands of Britain and France, and both of them were reluctant to use full power, they instead turned to create the HoareLaval Pact. This worsened relations with Mussolini after he defeated Abyssinia. Consequently, this resulted in less security against Hitler; the Stresa Front was broken, the Rome-Berlin axis was created, the Anti-Comintern pact was created, and in May 1938, and Pact of Steel was also created. This gave Hitler an unusual oppournity of his first act of aggression; the march into the Rhineland. Therefore, we can say that the failure of the League during the 1930s have encouraged Hitler to increase his demands, as he knew that they were no longer going through the Assembly or the council in the League, but instead, through the appeasement process by Chamberlain.
