The real death of the League was in December 1935 [in its response to the Abyssinian Crisis], not in 1939 or 1945. One day it was a powerful body imposing sanctions, seemingly more effective than ever before; the next day it was an empty sham, everyone scuttling from it as quickly as possible. –Origins of the Second World War, A. J. P. Taylor According to this author, what caused the end of the League of Nations? Its inability to create lasting mandates its inability to address social issues its inability to prevent acts of aggression its inability to impose economic sanctions