World wars

Many individuals and organizations attempted to avoid wars among nations and maintain peace. Many of their strategies worked and others failed.

The League of Nations was set up post WW1 to assist in eliminating war between nations. The main point of this league was to prevent war among nations through peacekeeping and peacemaking procedures. It had a council represented by the great powers-US, Britain, France, Japan and Russia. U.S.A never really joined the league. This was part of the League’s ineffectiveness. Such an extraordinary military and economic power was not part of this global association. This league proved its ineffectiveness in two crises- the Manchurian Crisis and the Ethiopian Crisis. During the Manchurian Crisis, the league failed to take any action because of the distance between the main powers and Manchuria. This shows their weakness in their ability of preventing war, which was the main purpose of the League. In the Ethiopian Crisis, the league did take some s...