INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
FASCISM IN ITALY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ethiopia was next to their colony
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Ethiopia had never become a colony
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Italy wanted to be a world power
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They were scared of the League of Nations
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Detailed explanation-1: -The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia’s defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century (1896), which saved Ethiopia from Italian colonisation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Italian government claimed Ethiopia as a protectorate under the Berlin Congress regime for the management of claims to African territory. Menilek denied any protectorate existed. Italy tried to assert its supposed rights by force, but suffered a dramatic defeat at the Battle of Adwa (1896).
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The League banned weapons sales, and put sanctions on rubber and metal. The Abyssinian Emperor Haile Selassie went to the League to appeal for help, but it did nothing else – in fact Britain and France secretly agreed to give Abyssinia to Italy (the Hoare-Laval Pact). The League had failed.