EVENT INFORMATION

3
Òktober
1935

Italy invades Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations

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📅 3 Òktober 1935 📍 Etiopia, Italia

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 sanctions were limited and major powers protected their own interests. The invasion exposed the racial limits of the postwar security system and made anti-fascist solidarity an international cause.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Haile Selassie

Benito Mussolini

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Ethiopian Empire

Kingdom of Italy

League of Nations