USA HISTORY

The secret agreement that allowed Italy’s conquest of Abyssinia was called ____

(A) ** The Hoare-Laval Pact

(B) The Hore-Laval Treaty

(C) The Hore-Laval Pact

(D) The Hoare-Laval Treaty

Concept note-1: -Hoare-Laval Pact, (1935) secret plan to offer Benito Mussolini most of Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia) in return for a truce in the Italo-Ethiopian War.

Concept note-2: -The Pact offered to partition Abyssinia and thus partially achieve Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s goal of making the independent nation of Abyssinia into an Italian colony. The proposal ignited a firestorm of hostile reaction in Britain and France and never went into effect.

Concept note-3: -The Hoare-Laval Pact was a secret agreement between Britain, France and Italy during the Abyssinian Crisis. Who was involved in the Hoare-Laval pact? Britain and France’s foreign ministers, Samuel Hoare and Pierre Laval, negotiated with Italy.

Concept note-4: -Italo-Ethiopian War, (1935–36), an armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia’s subjection to Italian rule.