THE spring of 1936 will see the fortieth anniversary of Italy’s defeat at Adua by the armies of Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia. A resounding victory over Abyssinia by that date might well be pleasing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

On December 31, 1935, Italian aircraft operating over southern Abyssinia bombed the Swedish Red Cross unit near Dolo and another unit at Daggah Bur on January 4, 1936. In the first raid, 50 people ...

In the midst of Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini’s 19-year-old son Vittorio, a pilot in the Regia Aeronautica, published an account of an air raid, writing, “I still ...

ITALY AND ABYSSINIA. Share full article. Nov. 17, 1896. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 17, 1896, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on ...

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.

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 ...

Italy: Italian colonial forces commanded by the Duke of Aosta. Outcome: Defeat of the Italian forces in East Africa. In 1940, Italy controlled Abyssinia, ... of Aosta invaded neighbouring ...

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 ...