The anticipation and settlement of arguments between nation-states in order to evade another fire like World War I was central to the processes and actions of the league. Though it did not have an armed force in particular, the league prohibited or established a number of battles and arguments in the 1920s.
The weakening of the League of Nations in the 1930s imitated the reluctance or incapability of France, Britain, and the United States to compete with the progressively nationalist-imperialist and militaristic courses of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and imperial Japan.