The Manchurian and Abyssinian Crisis
Research Question: Why did the League of Nations fail to stop The Manchurian and Abyssinian Crisis?
Japan did a lot of trading with America and relied on them for all the goods, so when the Great Depression happened in America, it hit Japan very hard as well. This led to the Japanese civilian government becoming unpopular. So the army decided that the best way for Japan to leave the depression and get resources was to take over Manchuria, in 1931. Their army secretly designed an explosion on a section of the South Manchuria Railway, which was run by Japan. The Japanese blamed Chinese nationalists. This gave the Japanese army the excuse it needed to start the invasion.
Then the League joined in and decided …show more content…
Italy faced the same problem as Japan and wanted new resources. At this time, they were ruled by a dictator named Benito Mussolini who promised the Italian people glory and greatness. So when the great Depression happened in America, and everyone was facing economical problems, Mussolini wanted to distract the people from all of it and to satisfy Italian imperial desires. So he decided to invade Abyssinia (current Ethiopia) because they had all the resources required and it was easy for Mussolini to take over as the Abyssinian leader, at the time, was not powerful enough to stop him. The invasion was very brutal and violent and initiated without any warning; without the declaration of war. Even though the Abyssinian army was larger than the Italian army, they still had outdated weapons, sears and bows. Whereas the Italian army were loaded with machine guns, planes, …show more content…
So they started to worry more about their nation than about world peace.
Unsuccessful – Because the League kept failing, everybody started to lose faith in them.
Members – The main members either left the League or betrayed them.
Big bullies – The League had only been successful with small countries and so when all the big countries left the League and started to re- arm, they slowly defeated the League itself.
In this source, we can see two figures. One is a rich, upper – class man and the other is an ordinary man. They both represent the entire society, which means that the people of Britain have a reason to be depressed. Then in the back ground, it looks like there is mark left behind by WW1, which is definitely a reason to be depressed about. The two figures are sitting on a stone that has a crack on it, and it clearly shows that the League is broken and useless. It does not only have a crack on it but it also looks like a tombstone. A tombstone obviously shows death which only means that the League is dead.
SOURCES:
http://www.johndclare.net/league_of_nations8.htm
Research Question: Why did the League of Nations fail to stop The Manchurian and Abyssinian Crisis?
Japan did a lot of trading with America and relied on them for all the goods, so when the Great Depression happened in America, it hit Japan very hard as well. This led to the Japanese civilian government becoming unpopular. So the army decided that the best way for Japan to leave the depression and get resources was to take over Manchuria, in 1931. Their army secretly designed an explosion on a section of the South Manchuria Railway, which was run by Japan. The Japanese blamed Chinese nationalists. This gave the Japanese army the excuse it needed to start the invasion.
Then the League joined in and decided …show more content…
Italy faced the same problem as Japan and wanted new resources. At this time, they were ruled by a dictator named Benito Mussolini who promised the Italian people glory and greatness. So when the great Depression happened in America, and everyone was facing economical problems, Mussolini wanted to distract the people from all of it and to satisfy Italian imperial desires. So he decided to invade Abyssinia (current Ethiopia) because they had all the resources required and it was easy for Mussolini to take over as the Abyssinian leader, at the time, was not powerful enough to stop him. The invasion was very brutal and violent and initiated without any warning; without the declaration of war. Even though the Abyssinian army was larger than the Italian army, they still had outdated weapons, sears and bows. Whereas the Italian army were loaded with machine guns, planes, …show more content…
So they started to worry more about their nation than about world peace.
Unsuccessful – Because the League kept failing, everybody started to lose faith in them.
Members – The main members either left the League or betrayed them.
Big bullies – The League had only been successful with small countries and so when all the big countries left the League and started to re- arm, they slowly defeated the League itself.
In this source, we can see two figures. One is a rich, upper – class man and the other is an ordinary man. They both represent the entire society, which means that the people of Britain have a reason to be depressed. Then in the back ground, it looks like there is mark left behind by WW1, which is definitely a reason to be depressed about. The two figures are sitting on a stone that has a crack on it, and it clearly shows that the League is broken and useless. It does not only have a crack on it but it also looks like a tombstone. A tombstone obviously shows death which only means that the League is dead.
SOURCES:
http://www.johndclare.net/league_of_nations8.htm