Editing World War II (section)

=== Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935) ===
{{Main|Second Italo-Ethiopian War}}
[[File:Mussolini truppe Etiopia.jpg|thumb|[[Benito Mussolini]] inspecting troops during the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italo-Ethiopian War]], 1935]]

The [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]] was a brief [[colonial war]] that began in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war began with the invasion of the [[Ethiopian Empire]] (also known as [[Etymology of Ethiopia|Abyssinia]]) by the armed forces of the [[Kingdom of Italy]] ({{lang|it|Regno d'Italia}}), which was launched from [[Italian Somaliland]] and [[Italian Eritrea|Eritrea]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stanton |first1=Andrea L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtCL2OYsH6wC |title=Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia |last2=Ramsamy |first2=Edward |last3=Seybolt |first3=Peter J. |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-4129-8176-7 |page=308 |access-date=6 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307201327/https://books.google.com/books?id=GtCL2OYsH6wC |archive-date=7 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> The war resulted in the [[military occupation]] of Ethiopia and its [[annexation]] into the newly created colony of [[Italian East Africa]] ({{lang|it|Africa Orientale Italiana}}); in addition it exposed the weakness of the [[League of Nations]] as a force to preserve peace. Both Italy and Ethiopia were member nations, [[Appeasement|but the League did little]] when the former clearly violated Article X of the League's [[Covenant of the League of Nations|Covenant]].{{sfn|Barker|1971|pp=131–132}} The United Kingdom and France supported imposing sanctions on Italy for the invasion, but the sanctions were not fully enforced and failed to end the Italian invasion.{{sfn|Shirer|1990|p=289}} Italy subsequently dropped its objections to Germany's goal of absorbing [[Federal State of Austria|Austria]].{{sfn|Kitson|2001|p=231}}