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How did the League of Nations fail?

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How did the League of Nations fail?

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The League was powerless and mostly silent in the face of major events leading to World War II such as Hitler’s re-militarisation of the Rhineland, occupation of the Sudetenland and annexation of Austria. As with Japan, both Germany in 1933 using the failure of the World Disarmament Conference to agree to arms parity between France and Germany as a pretext and Italy in 1937 simply withdrew from the League rather than submit to its judgment. The League commissioner in Danzig was unable to deal with German claims on the city, a significant contributing factor in the outbreak of World War II in 1939. The final significant act of the League was to expel the Soviet Union in December 1939 after it invaded Finland.