THE SEARCH FOR PEACE AND ITS FAILURES

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PEACE IN THE YEARS AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WANTED IT MARE THAN ANYTHING .TO KEEP THE PEACE ,THE VERSAILLES TRETY SET UP BY THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS .THE IDEA OF THE LEAGUE WAS TO GIVE THE LEADERS FROM ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD SOMEWHERE TO TALK OVER THEIR DIFFERENCES .PEOPLE HOPED THAT THIS WOULD MAKE WARS LESS LIKLEY ,ESPECIALLY IF THE STRONGEST COUNTRIES AGREE TO CUT THE WEAPONS AND FIGHTING MEN . 42 COUNTRIES JOINED THE LEAGUE IN THE BEGINING WHEN THE LEAGUE FIRST BEGAN IN 1920 AND THE OTHERS JOINED LATER . THE LEAGUE HEADQUATERS WERE IN GENEVA ,SWITZERLAND .
THE LEGUE'S WEAKNESS AND STRENGTHS
1)THE LEAGUE HAD PROMISED TO SETTLE QURRALS BETWEEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
2)IT TRIED TO SAVE MANY INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS
3)IT ALSO ORGANISED HELP FOR THOUSANDS OF REFUGES WHO WERE LEFT HOMLESS AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR .
4)IT ALSO TRIED TO WORK FOR SPAMPING OUR EVILS LIKE SLAVERY AND DRUG SMUGGLING .
5)IT ALSO TRIED TO IMPROVE PEOPLE'S WORKING CONDITIONS
JAPAN ATTACKS MANCHURIA ,1931
IN 1931 THE JAPANESE ARMY ATTACKED MANCHURIA .MANCURIA WAS A PART OF CHINA , JAPAN'S LARGEST AND FEEBLE NEIGHBOUR .THE JAPANESE WANTED TO GRAB IT'S RICH COAL MINES AND FERTILE FARMLANDS .THE LEAGUE TOLD THE JAPANESE TO STOP BUT THEY DIDNOT LISTEN AND WENT ON WITH THE ATTACK ,BROUGHT MANCHURIA IN THIER RULE AND WALKED OUT OF THE LEAGUE .
DISARMAMENT FAIL
BY NOW THE LEAGUE'S HOPES FOR DISARMAMENTS WERECRUMBLING . IT ORGANIZED MEETINGS AFTER MEETINGS TO DISCUSS THE MATTER BUT ALL THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCES WERE FAILURES .THE LAST GREAT DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN GENEVA,SWITZERLAND IN FEBUARY 1932 . IN OCTOBER 1933 HITLER'S SPOKESMAN THERE WALKED OUT .HE SAID OTHER NATIONS ARE JUST TRYING TO PUT THEM DOWN.
ITALY ATTACKS ABYSSINIA,1935
IN 1935 THE LEGUE WAS TESTED AGAIN .THE ITALIAN DICTATOR ,MUSSOLINI,ATTCKED ABYSIINIAA POORLY AND BADLY ARMED COUNTRY WAS ATTACKED THE LEAGUE TRIED TO STOP MUSSOLINI BUT THEY ALSO DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE LEAGUE LIKE THE JAPENESE .THE LEAGUE MADE TRADE SANCTIONS SO THAT THEY DO NOT HELP ITALY IN ANYWAY BUT THIER OIL WHICH WAS MOST VITAL WAS NOT BANNED AND THEN ITALY ALSO LEFT THE LEAGUE TAKING THE EXAMPLE OF LEAVING THE LEAGUE
ITLAY,GERMANY &JAPAN
TE LEADERS OF ALL THREE NATIONS GLORIFIED WAR THEY ALL TAUGHT THEIR PEOPLE, TOO ,TO SEE THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF THE SUPERIOR RACES AND COMPARED THE OTHER AS INFERIOR RACES FINALLY THEY ALL BELIVE IN TOTALITARIAN TYPE OF GOVERMENT
ROME BERLIN AXIS
IN 1936 MUSSOLINI AND HITLER SIGED A TREETY BETWEEN THEM CALLED THE "ROME-BERLIN AXIS".AN AXIS IS A LINE JOINIG TWO POINTS TOGETER.TH TWO DICTATOR USED TH WORDS TO TELL THE WORLD THAT GERMANY AND ITALY WOULD SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER'S IN QURRALS WITH OTHER NATIONS .IN 1937 JAPAN JOINED THE AXIS AND IT BECAME THE"ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO AXIS"
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR,1936 -1939
IN 1936 A WAR BROKE OUT IN SPAIN GENERAL FRANCO LED THE NATIONALIST WHO WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE ELECTED GOVERMENT THEY HAD THE ARMY,LEADERS OF THE CATHOLIS=C CHURCH AND LANDOWNERS .THE REPUBLIC AWAS LED BY SOCIALISTS,TRADE UNIONISTAND SPAIN'S SMALL COMMUNIST PARTIES
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TOLD THE OTHER COUNTREIES NOT TO INTRFER WITH THE WAR IN SPAIN BUT MUSSPLINI HELPED FRANCO WITH SOLIDERS AND HITLR HELPED THEM WITH WAR PLANES THE REPUBLIC WAS GIVEN HELP BY THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE AND THE STALIN TOO
BUT IN 1939 FRACO WON THE WAR AND ANOTHER TOTALITARIAN LEADER WAS IN POWER