At five am on the 3rd of October 1935 Italian forces crossed into Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia, signalling the start of the Second Italian-Abyssinian War. Lawmakers overturn ban on common store ...

In 1940, Italy controlled Abyssinia, which it had conquered in 1936, as well as the 19th-century conquests of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. In August 1940 the Duke of Aosta invaded neighbouring ...