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Why was the League of Nations a failure?

The League of Nations failed because of many factors. First off, the United States never joined the League of Nations, even though president Woodrow Wilson came up with the idea for an international organization to maintain peace. Because the U.S. never joined the League of Nations, they never had a military presence so they could not break up conflicts between countries, like when Japan invaded Manchuria. In 1931Japan had attacked the Chinese province of Manchuria and the League did not do anything to stop them. Then in 1935, Italy invaded Abyssinia (currently Ethiopia), and the League of Nations was once again unable to end the conflict. These failures, mostly due to the lack of military presence that the U.S. could have provided, led to the failure of the League of Nations.