📅 3 October 1935
Italy invades Ethiopia, one of the few African states to retain formal independence. The invasion provokes protests and diaspora solidarity campaigns; it exposed the weakness of the League of...
📅 7 February 1924
Italy formally recognized the USSR, one of several European governments that established relations with the new state in 1924. Diplomatic recognition improved Soviet access to trade and...
📅 3 October 1935
Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia provoked condemnation and solidarity across Africa and the diaspora. The attack on one of the few African states then retaining sovereignty exposed the limits of the...
📅 3 October 1935
Italian forces crossed into Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, beginning a war of conquest. Ethiopia, one of the League’s few African members, appealed for collective action, but...
📅 3 October 1935
Italian forces invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, using superior weapons and chemical agents against a sovereign African state. Ethiopia appealed to the League of Nations, whose...
📅 29 September 1938
Germany, Britain, France, and Italy signed an agreement to transfer the Sudeten territories from Czechoslovakia to Germany. The Czechoslovak government was not represented in the negotiations. The...
📅 10 June 1940
Mussolini declared war on Britain and France as Italy’s fascist regime sought territorial expansion in Europe and Africa. Italy’s existing colonies in Libya, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, and...
