AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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Gave Italy land in Chad.
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Banned Italy from taking Abyssinia.
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Promised not to interfere in Somaliland.
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Promised to let Mussolini deal with Abyssinia however he saw fit.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1935, the Italian army under Mussolini invaded Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia). Mussolini wanted to recreate the Roman Empire and was a prominent member of the League of Nations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 caused a crisis for the League of Nations. League members imposed limited sanctions against Italy and debated at length the imposition of an embargo on oil shipments to Italy, which came to stand as a symbol of the League’s determination to punish the Italian aggressor.
Detailed explanation-4: -The League of Nations ruled against Italy and voted for economic sanctions, but they were never fully applied. Italy ignored the sanctions, quit the League, made special deals with the United Kingdom and France and ultimately annexed and occupied Abyssinia after it had won the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.