UNCC300 Lecture 4: Extended Response 1
22 Jan 2019
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Extended response 1: the league of nations and collapse of collective security: abyssinia, the spanish civil war. Makes a sophisticated judgment which demonstrates a thorough understanding of the reasons for the collapse of the league of nations. The league of nations was a peace-keeping organisation formed by the us in 1919. It aimed to resolve conflicts, international disputes and administer world peace through the action of collective security; the machinery for joint action. Italy"s full scale of abyssinia was a symptom of the collapse of collective security and the death of the league of nations. Mussolini"s longed ambitions for an imperial expansion and dominance of the mediterranean region resulted in an invasion of abyssinia on the 3rd of. Italian action against abyssinia was totally indefensible despite their strengths and brutal willingness to use modern weaponry such as poison gas. Emperor haile selassie, abyssinia was a member of the league.
