12/25/2023 0 Comments Instaling The Second World WarIn December, use of chemical gases was permitted by the Italian high command which decisively tilted the war in the coming months. The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I found some success in the counter-attack known as the Christmas Offensive but the Italians progressed steadily. Against the international code, the offensive had started before any declaration of war. Also, General Rodolfo Graziani attacked Ethiopia from south along with the Somalians, implementing Milan Plan. On October 3, 1935, Italian troops under General Emilio De Bono invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea. Great Britain and France dominated the League and in the hope of preventing Italy from drifting towards Germany, decided to ignore the Italian aggression. The League of Nations was appealed to but failed to provide any solutions. EventĪ conflict started in November 1934 when Italian forces entered the Ethiopian territory of the Wal Wal Oasis and clashed with Ethiopian troops. Considering the recent history between the two countries and Mussolini’s ambitions, an Italian invasion was a matter of time and circumstances. Ethiopia was surrounded by Italian colonies of Eritrea in the north and Somalia in the south east. His colonial ambitions and aims for the revival of the Roman Empire were well known, as were his racist ideas about the “primitive peoples” of Africa. In post WW1 Italy, Benito Mussolini had risen as the supreme Fascist dictator over the decade. ![]() Forty years ago in 1895, they had also been the only African nation to repel a European colonizer, defeating the Italian invasion in the 1st Italo-Ethiopian War. In 1935, Ethiopia along with Liberia were the only nations left on the African continent, which had not been colonized by a European power. #1 Italian Invasion of Ethiopia (then Abyssinia) Date:
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