1. Manchurian crisis
   1. Countries such as Germany and Italy, Hitler and Mussolini, saw the League of Nations as weak
   2. When the League of Nations formally condemned Japans actions Japan simply left the League of Nations
   3. USA had not joined
      1. They had a large army
      2. Japans main trader was the USA, so if they were in the League of Nations, economic sanctions could have been imposed
   4. Another member of the council had got away with invading another country
   5. Sanctions were not used because Japans main trading partner, the USA, were not a member of the League of Nations
   6. The nearest country who could send troops was the USSR but they were not a member of the League of Nations
   7. Britain and France, the two main powers in the League of Nations, were not willing to risk their troops
   8. If countries did not like what the League of Nations said, they could just leave, like Japan did
2. The Abyssinian crisis
   1. The USA did not join
      1. They had the largest army in the world
      2. They had come up with the idea of the League of Nations
   2. They were the biggest trader in the world, and economic sanctions could have been imposed if they were in they League of Nations
   3. It took a very time to figure out who was wrong.
      1. This is like the Manchurian crisis, where it also took a very long time to figure out who was wrong
      2. Just like Japan, Italy left when the League of Nations started imposing sanctions and the sort
3. The Manchurian crisis was a disaster for the League of Nations, and revealed that it needed the USA to function properly. It also showed that the League of Nations was powerless to function against large and powerful countries.