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Ethiopia 1935–36: mustard gas and attacks on the Red Cross (Full version in French) – Bernard Bridel, Le Temps; The use of chemical weapons in the 1935–36 Italo-Ethiopian War – SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme, October 2009; Mussolini's Invasion and the Italian Occupation; Mussolini's Ethiopia Campaign
A map of Ethiopian Empire, the land at the centre of the crisis.. The Abyssinia Crisis, [nb 1] also known in Italy as the Walwal incident, [nb 2] was an international crisis in 1935 that originated in a dispute over the town of Walwal, which then turned into a conflict between Fascist Italy and the Ethiopian Empire (then commonly known as "Abyssinia").
October 3: Italy invades Ethiopia. Italian forces under De Bono advance from Eritrea into northern Ethiopia. Italian forces under Graziani stand ready to advance from Italian Somaliland into southern Ethiopia. Italy is condemned by the League for attacking without formal declaration of war. October 5: The northern Italian army captures Adigrat.
Italian Ethiopia (Italian: Etiopia ... Emperor Haile Selassie's reign was interrupted on 3 October 1935 [16] when Italian ... Deliberate Italian attacks against ...
At precisely 5:00 am on 3 October 1935, General Emilio De Bono crossed the Mareb River and advanced into Ethiopia from Eritrea without a Declaration of War. [2] In response to the Italian invasion, Ethiopia declared war on Italy. [3] At this point in the campaign, roadways represented a serious drawback for the Italians as they crossed into ...
On 30 December 1935, a Swedish Red Cross field hospital was destroyed in an airstrike by the Regia Aeronautica (Royal Italian Air Force) in Dolo, Ethiopia, killing between 22 and 30 people, mostly Ethiopians. The attack was part of an Italian response to the killing of Italian aviator Tito Minniti by either Ethiopian troops or civilians.
The Battle of Shire (Italian: Battaglia dello Shirè) was fought on the northern front of what was known as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.This battle consisted of attacks and counterattacks by Italian forces under Marshal of Italy Pietro Badoglio and Ethiopian forces under Ras [nb 1] Imru Haile Selassie.
Ethiopian war (disambiguation) Abyssinia Crisis, a 1935 crisis originating in the so-called Walwal incident in the then ongoing conflict between Italy and Ethiopia; East African Campaign (World War II) of 1940–1941 defeated the Italians and restored the independence of Abyssinia, this time with direct assistance from other powers