USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-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.

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

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