The Fall of the League of Nations

After the end of World War I, the nations of the world decided to create an international body with the sole purpose of preventing another major conflict from happening again. As a result, the League of Nations came into fruition and from the beginning; it displayed flaws from within its covenant and its lack of enforceability. This paper will analyze why the League of Nations ultimately failed to achieve its goal of maintaining world peace in the context of Article 5 and unanimity as a voting mechanism. We can analyze the inadequacy of the organization from several angles. However, we will focus on the second Italo-Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war, as it exposed the inability of the League of Nations to effectively deal with them.