The League Part II: Going for a Chinese - the Manchurian Crisis

During the 1920s, the League managed to deal with a few small skirmishes and small scale problems very well; but at the dawn of the new decade a more militaristic Japan started expanding in the Far East. Was the Manchurian Crisis what killed the League of Nations? Was it just the beginning of the end? Or was it just a simple mistake that the League could have learned from? This podcast is designed to help with Topic 3 on Paper One of the 2017 exam.