Italy invaded which african nation in 1935

The excuse for the attack came in an incident during December between Italian and Abyssinian troops at the Wal-Wal oasis on the border between Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland. Mussolini demanded an apology. He also prepared his army. Events both inside and outside Italy convinced Mussolini that this action was the right one. Italy, like many other countries in the early s, had economic problems.

Mussolini's economic policies did not fix the situation. A war might unite the Italian people behind their leader and make them forget their domestic problems. The League of Nations, forerunner to the United Nations, was criticized sharply. Black men trained for military action — an estimated 8, in Chicago, 5, in Detroit, 2, in Kansas City.

In New York City, where a thousand men drilled, nurse Salaria Kea of Harlem Hospital collected funds that sent a bed hospital and two tons of medical supplies to Ethiopia. Haile Selassie addressed the League of Nations in June of Here is an excerpt:. I, Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, am here today to claim that justice which is due to my people, and the assistance promised to it eight months ago, when fifty nations asserted that aggression had been committed in violation of international treaties.

There is no precedent for a Head of State himself speaking in this assembly. But there is also no precedent for a people being victim of such injustice and being at present threatened by abandonment to its aggressor. Also, there has never before been an example of any Government proceeding to the systematic extermination of a nation by barbarous means, in violation of the most solemn promises made by the nations of the earth that there should not be used against innocent human beings the terrible poison of harmful gases.

It is to defend a people struggling for its age-old independence that the head of the Ethiopian Empire has come to Geneva to fulfil this supreme duty, after having himself fought at the head of his armies. Learn more at BlackPast. We welcome photos or newspaper reports on the international solidarity described in this post. Please email to: zep zinnedproject.

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