What the League of Nations did

When Italy attacked in 1935, Abyssinia asked the League of Nation for their help. 

The League of Nations ordered to charge economic sanctions on Italy. The sanctions took around six weeks to be organized. The League banned weapons sales and decided also to put sanctions on rubber and metal. In order to end this war, Samuel Hoare, a British Foreign Secretary and Pierre Lava, the French Prime Minister, met together in December 1935. They worked together and came about a plan called the Hoare-Laval Plan. The plan was to give two large areas of Abyssinia to Italy and the gap in the middle of the country, also known as the “corridor of camels”, to the Abyssinians. In order to receive this land, the Italians had to stop the war. Mussolini decided to accept the plan. However rumors were going around that a British government Minister had betrayed the people that lived in Abyssinia. This caused Hoare to resign and once he did the plan was not used. Mussolini then decided to continue with his invasion of Abyssinia. Since the plan failed and in the plan there were two European League Members, the sanctions also failed. The Abyssinia crisis was one of the Failures of the League of Nations.