1. Why Did the League fail to
achieve its aims during the
1930s?
Learning objectives:
1. To know what the Abyssinia Crisis was
2. To analyse the similarities and differences
between the Manchuria and Abyssinia Crisis’
concluding which Crisis was more damaging for the
League

2. Key Question: Why did
Disarmament fail in the 1930s?
O As a table you need to put the cards in
order of what happened regarding
Disarmament in order
O Then you need to put these into your
books in the form of a flow diagram
showing the stages the
discussion/incidents went though

3. Be a Historian; explain….
1. Which incident/point in time was
responsible for disarmament
being a failure?
2. Who was to blame for its failure? –
(Britain, France, Germany, everyone
?)
3. Where should things have been
done differently in order to achieve
disarmament/stop Hitler re-arming
Germany?

4. Its Pie-Time again!!!
O Re-draw your League of Nations Pie
Chart in the margin
O Briefly explain why you have drawn it the
way you have

5. Key Question: How did
Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia
damage the League?
O Read pages 40-43 of the text book in order to
complete the timeline into your exercise books
making sure that you fill in all the missing gaps on
the timeline.

6. How did Mussolini’s invasion
affect the League?
- What were the similarities and differences between
Manchuria and Abyssinia? Create a Two sided table
with similarities down one side and differences down
the other
- Which incident was worst for the reputation of the
League Abyssinia or Manchuria? Give evidence to
support/justify your answer

7. Team Challenge:
O As a team you will have a selection of
Historical cartoons to analyse
O I have already analysed them and wrote
down 6 things for each cartoon that I am
hoping you will mention. Which ever team
can mention the most of my points will win
the team challenge and will win the prize.
O You will have 15 minutes to complete your
analysis of ALL the cartoons!

9. German Cartoon
from 1919

10. British cartoon published
in Punch Magazine in
1919

11. A German Cartoon
published in 1920

12. British Cartoon from
Punch Magazine 1919

13. The French and
British only looked Super powers like
after their own the USA were not
interests in the League
Failure of
The sanctions
The Decisions
were too slow
the League weren't good
of Nations enough
The league had
The League
to enforce the
had no army
unfair TOV

14. You need to create an overall
assessment of the LON
O You need a diagram that shows all of the
success and failures of the LON
O Your Homework task is to write an
assessment of the performance of the LON
throughout both the 1920s and 1930s
O Remember: a good history answer has an
intro, then gives both sides of the argument
(balanced) and then a strong conclusion that
gives your opinion as to whether it was a
success or not and why.

15. Persuasive Writing
O You need to write to reports on the
performance of the League of Nations:
one in a positive light and one in a
negative light
O The facts are the facts so the way you get
your point across is through your use of
language, the selection of details, and
explain each event