The League of Nations was created in 1920 to help countries settle down between them , become peacekeepers and solve problems overcoming the population. The major problems were drug control, Refugee work, famine relief and diseases which seemed one of its biggest successes for the League of Nations .The League of Nations was meant to help countries stay settled with each other ,instead it induced quarrels between countries. The League of Nations didn't always succeed in stopping those quarrels. Tension between countries became greater. Examples of those quarrels would be Corfu and Bulgaria. They indeed increased and a diminished the reputation of towards the League of Nations because they joined the defense towards important and bigger countries giving unfair punishments to countries less important , succeeded in adverting war in the border disputes between Bulgaria and Greece and set a dangerous example to other countries becoming not effective peacekeepers.
The League of Nations on the 31st August 1923 condemned Mussolini of its invasion of the Greek island of Corfu and gave Greece a small sanction to pay for killing the Italian general Enrico Tellini until the killers were found and prosecuted. Mussolini at first accepted the terms as he then slowly entered the Conference of Ambassadors . The league of Nations was convinced of Italy's innocence as Mussolini slowly overdrew closer and closer to the League of Nations. The League then changed its mind and made Greece apologize and made them pay the compensation , while Mussolini was able to leave Corfu with no problem. The Corfu incident shows a diminish towards the League of Nations and an unfair favored treatment towards Greece. The League of Nations not only didn't solve the conflict between Italy and Greece but it sustained the country which for them was most powerful and most useful later on. Corfu was just an island for them while Italy was part of the League of Nations, there was also the problem that other parts of Greece were taken and Corfu would have caused the other part of Greece to rebel for their freedom so the League best thought to blame Greece and let Italy go. I would also mention that it showed that the League could change its mind fromone day to the next.
In 1925 Greek soldiers were killed on the Greek-Bulgarian border which caused the Greeks to invade Bulgaria . Bulgaria than asked the League for help. Bulgaria's government told its soldiers not fight back and the League told the Greek's to leave. They obeyed and left. This shows an add of the Bulgarian actions towards the League of Nations as it succeed in adverting the war in the border disputes between Bulgaria and Greece ,though , it still showed that their power wasn't strong, as things could have gone otherwise . Bulgaria could have fought the Greek and the League would have condemned Greece once more as in the Corfu incident , going along with the stronger , more powerful and bigger state. They proved that they could succeed but that wasn't for too long.
The Corfu and Bulgarian accidents were being evaluated and watched far away from other countries as they were learning the weakness of the League of Nations. One of the main person people was Adolf Hitler which had remained quite after all the blame which fell on Germany and the huge sanctions they had to pay and couldn't afford. The League did set a dangerous example to other countries causing more deaths and pain , though the League wasn't all failure as they helped most of the population to face and solve the problems of health, labour, slavery, refugees and famine. Their mistakes and failures from stopping previous wars were fatal for allot of countries.
The League's fall as well as other influences was the immediate cause of the outbreak of WW II . It caused all their previous work to fall down again and get even worse. The ones which feel those breakdowns are the populations which are the ones most fragile and weak. The League did for sure have both an add and a diminish from the actions of those quarrels which kept the world safe from another world war for a few years , giving people the opportunity to start over building family , homes , jobs and regain health.
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