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. The war’s outcome would not only ...

ITALY-ABYSSINIA: Being Smart. 3 minute read. TIME. March 4, 1935 12:00 AM GMT-5. Instead of sailing for New York last week, comfortably full of U. S. tourists, Italy’s gaudy, ornate, popular ...

After conquering Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, Italy turned its attention to the last independent African country, Ethiopia (Abyssinia). The first Italian invasion became known as the First ...

In 1935, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the Fascist Duce of Italy since 1922, invaded Abyssinia, and on May 7 1936 declared the country to be annexed, as part of Italian East Africa, joined to the ...

On Aug. 3, 1935, a day so humid you could taste the air, 25,000 Black and White New Yorkers marched down Harlem’s Lenox Avenue to protest fascist Italy’s plans to invade Ethiopia.

Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. The remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936 and the Spanish Civil War, which started the same year. Anschluss with Austria and the Sudeten crisis of 1938.