failures in 1920s

• dealing with aggressors

  • poland vs lithuania in vilna
  • italy vs greece in corfu
• implementing disarmament

  • powerful countries refused to disarm as it was a threat to national security
  • encouraged germans to argue they had right to rearm and defend
• agreements made outside the league

  • france made many assistance pacts with countries like Poland + Czechslovakia
  • Kellog-Briand pact to renounce war by 65 countries
• collective security

  • league didn't have its own army
  • countries didn't want to send troops to fight a conflict not to do with them
  • absence of US, USSR, Germany reduced effectiveness + strength
  • decisions had to be unanimous which made decisions very hard