The objectives of the League of Nations were to discourage aggression by any nation, the encouragement of disarmament by all nations, improved cooperation in business and trade and the improved living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world. The pursuit of these objectives in largely democratic 1920s Europe was tricky enough while economic recovery from the First World War was taking place.
However, following the Wall St Crash and Hitler’s rise to power in 1932 the league lurched from failure to irrelevance. The consequences of the league’s failures to address the invasion of Manchuria by Japan, the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Abyssinia were twofold:
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