What were the main long term causes? - The Failure of the League of Nations - Unilateral agreements ignoring the League of Nations

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What are examples of unilateral agreements outside of the League of Nations?

  1. April 1935: Stresa Front; Agreements between Italy, Britain and France to enforce international treaties
  2. May 1935: Anglo-German naval treaty
  3. June 1935: Italy invades Abyssinia
  4. October 1935: League of Nations economic sanctions against Italy
  5. December 1935: Britain and France make a secret offer; the Hoare-Laval Pact: granting Mussolini 2/3 of Abyssinia. They wanted Italian support at the expense of the Ethiopians and the League of Nations.

What is a quote that emphasizes that it wasn't so much the League of Nations that was a failure but more country's ignoration of the League of Nations?

"The League of Nations has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found inconvenient and not tried." - Lord David Cecil

What was the impact of the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Treaty?

  1. Hitler benefited from a British attempt to control German naval expansion
  2. Britain undermined the Treaty of Versailles in its own interests to control German battleship expansion to keep it less than Britains

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