2007-12-06 00:03:14 · 3 answers · asked by Douglas 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It wasn't that Britain and France were pursuing national interests that doomed the League, it was a failure to act against the interests of other nations. The biggest failure for the League that lead to its downfall came in 1935. In that year Italy invaded Ethiopia. Italy wanted colonies and by this time there were very few countries that were not already held by another European power. Italy attacked Ethiopia because it was one of the only independent nations in Africa. The leader of Ethiopia appealed to the League for assistance since Ethiopia was a member. There was no intervention by the other members including Britain and France.
2007-12-06 00:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by DAN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing at all. The only selfish interest involving either was a Franco-Belgian invasion of the Ruhr in Germany during 1923. Other than that the league failed because it was powerless to any thing to interdict German and Japanese aggression.
2007-12-06 00:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm... I don't really know of any.
The failure of the league of nations was in allowing Germany to do things that it had been told it couldn't do.
England and France, like everyone else, didn't really care about the League of Nations.
2007-12-06 00:14:37 · answer #3 · answered by Yun 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋