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120,000 [11] –200,000 [12] civilian casualties. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion (Amharic: ጣልያን ወረራ ...
June 23 – 24: Britain sends Anthony Eden to offer concessions about Ethiopia, they are rejected by Italy. June 25: Italian and Ethiopian officials meet in The Hague to discuss arbitration. July 9: The discussions fall apart. July 25: Britain declares an arms embargo on both Italy and Ethiopia.
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...
World Trade Center. (film) World Trade Center is a 2006 American docudrama disaster film [3] directed by Oliver Stone and written by Andrea Berloff. Starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña, the film is based on the experience of a team of New York City police officers during the September 11 attacks, in which they were trapped inside the rubble ...
Emperor Haile Selassie's reign was interrupted on 3 October 1935 [16] when Italian forces, under the direction of dictator Benito Mussolini, invaded and occupied Ethiopia. They occupied the capital, Addis Ababa, on 5 May 1936. Emperor Haile Selassie pleaded to the League of Nations for aid in resisting the Italians. Nevertheless, the country ...
Operations on the Northern front, East Africa, 1940 in the Second World War, were conducted by the British in Sudan and the Armed Forces Command of Italian East Africa ( Comando Forze Armate dell'Africa Orientale Italiana) in Eritrea and Ethiopia. On 1 June 1940, Amedeo, Duke of Aosta the Viceroy and Governor-General of the Africa Orientale ...
1,200 captured. De Bono's invasion of Ethiopia took place during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Italian General Emilio De Bono invaded northern Ethiopia from staging areas in the Italian colony of Eritrea on what was known as the "northern front".
On 23 October 1936, a nine-point protocol was signed by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in Berlin. [ 2][ 3] It was the first concrete expression of the Italo-German rapprochement that began earlier that year. It was signed by the foreign ministers Galeazzo Ciano and Konstantin von Neurath. [ 2] On the same day in Berlin, the Anti-Comintern Pact ...