The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (1935-36) 

Road to War: Another failure of the League of Nations (that led to WWII) was the Manchurian Crisis (1931-33). Comment here if you want to see that as an episode!

Italy: *invades Ethiopia* Britain and France: "You weren't suppose to do that!" Also Britain and France: *has 3/4 of Africa*

League of Nations: you can’t invade Abyssinia thats illegal! Italy: Oh no! Anyway

Italy: is making an empire Britain with 3M colonies: how dare you

Wow, those drawings and animations are getting really great, im twenty seconds in and its better than ever

"hono(u)r" - "h" is silent; "knife" - "k" is silent; "psycho" - "p" is silent; "Italy invades Abyssinia" - "League of Nation" is silent. May the invasion of Greece be next?

7:18 "Marshall Badoglio who had demonstrated his willingness to use brutal force in Libya." Fitting that he was named Badoglio and not Goodoglio.

Italy : conquers Abyssinia Italy 5 years later takes Albania Greece: I am about to end this mans whole career

When you realize that the Italians could've simply dropped the Atomic Meatball and ended the war.

LoN: YOU USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS. THAT S A WAR CRIMW Italy: But i used it on africans... LoN:Oh...well keep on then

LoN: Hey you stop doing that Italy: No LoN: Well okay

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." -Haile Selassie

Surprisingly the Ethiopian imperial guard (the Mehal Sefari) were remarkably well equipped for an African army prior to WWII. They were clothed in European uniforms and utilized European weapons

“It was us today. It will be you tomorrow.” - Haile Selassie

Wait, wait,wait... Etiopia defeated Italy at the end of the 19th century!!? LOL

My hats off to the people of Ethiopia who refused to let their homes be taken silently

Not-so-fun fact: After World War II, while German and Japanese war criminals were tried and handed out sentences at Nuremberg and Tokyo, no Italians were tried as war criminals due to the British and Americans wanting to keep Italy as an ally in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, despite Yugoslav, Greek, and Ethiopian attempts to bring them to justice.

Italy:”BACK TO WWI I GO!” France and Britain: “cool, just ally with us.” Italy; “No I don’t think I will”

The Italian invasion of Ethiopia wasted alot of Italy's resources, and isolated Mussolini by France and Britain which made Italy more dependent on Germany. Eventually it was the reason why Italy became an ally of Germany which led to its collapse.

Fun fact. Italy never managed to control 100% of Ethiopia, because of an Ethiopian resistance group called The Arbegnoch (Amharic for Patriots) That's why Ethiopian people say that they have never been colonized because they never surrendered and kept on fighting. Edit: many people are misunderstanding my comment. I never implied that Ethiopia would have been colonized if they didn’t resist the Italians. They were occupied by definition. I simply wanted to point out why many Ethiopians are proud of this conflict, even though it might look like a decisive defeat if you don’t know about the patriot’s resistance

Abyssinia: *exists* Italy: Do you want to explode?!

Italy might have been ineffective in fighting the allies But let’s remember how Italy showed how the League of Nations is a failure

Nobody: Italy in 1935: I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move

Never thought my school would use a Simple History video as a video for us to watch. But that shows how informative your videos are.

I just love how he was talking about some serious then just whipped out merch to sell right after

The Ethiopians actually had modern weapons and equipment supplied by the British since ww1

Americans : YoU cAn'T uSe cHeMiCal wEaPoNs Also Americans: So Long Gay Hiroshima

Italy: Go ahead, address the League of Nations. What are they gonna do, un invade you?

Can you make a history about Philippine-American war.

Please do invasion of Crete (Greece vs Fallsrimjager) ww2

When you and Your Army used Chemical weapons to kill millions of soldiers and un-armed people alike... but most of the World only remember you for your "Switch Team" tactic: *LAugh in Italian*

italy: look at this a fine display of a wide front conquest against an entire nation! Germany: well done *annexes europe in the background*

Invading Abyssinia with my pal @Luigi 👌🍝🇮🇹

Italian : It's not a chemical weapon, it's just some spicy green air

Abyssinia: NOo you cant use chemical weapons Italians: Haha gas go whoosh

I just want to thank you Simple History guys because you made me look really smart today in my US History college course.

Good for Ethiopia that Italians never used their ultimate ability... Switching sides

:| "we need to invade Abyssinia!" ? "why?" :| >:|

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Not gonna these videos are super interesting and good looking Good job simple history

Italy:Guys i have a idea *Italy has left the game*

The Roman Empire is like a lion Mussolini’s fascist Italy is a house cat

Wow, Abyssinia was more organized than I thought. I believed it was just some tribes that didn’t even have a leader.

My childhood is fill with flow song.... Thank you for all your determination that make you as a band that well known today

Fun fact: Britain, France, and Belgium sent aid to Ethiopia during the conflict, even going as far as sending advisors to command Ethiopian forces. This and the League conflict greatly affected the Allies relationship with Italy in the upcoming years.

They're lucky Italy didn't go all out spaghet on them

History is made of shades of gray. England condemned Italy while having a hallway of states from South Africa to Egypt, obtained with violence. Italy did do all those things but also abolished slavery which was rampant in Ethiopia

It's almost as if the league had done their jobs we could have avoided a lot. Maybe.

Mussolini? A modern Julius Ceaser? Ehhh... lets not crush little Mussolini’s dreams just yet

Do WWII battles fought by the Chinese and Japanese.

1:05 I love that little pause as if the narrator is explaining the insanity of Mussolini’s delusions to someone at the time

Great video

Europe: so Italy, what did you do today? Italy: I conquered an African country! Europe: So? Italy: it was hard okay! I had to use artillery and chemical gas to win. Europe: wow, they must be the most advanced army in the world. Do they have tanks? Italy: no... Europe: planes? Italy: not really... Europe: gas masks? Italy: ... Europe: Good for you... I guess?

You guys are great! These little sections of history are so well laid out and so full of detail. I have encouraged my children to watch them and learn and in fact their history teacher next year plans on using some of your episodes to cover World War II

Thank you so much for including Ethiopia in your videos 🙂🥳🥳🥳

If it wasn't for Simple History I never would have heard about this. Thanks

Amazingly informative as usual!

Italy Before the attack of ethiopia : haha all of this people will be a slave Italy after the attack of ethiopia : germany pick me up im scared

Simplehistory do you think you can make a video regarding the Polish Soviet war 1919-1920? That be awesome. :)

Nice video.

From what I remember from another video on the topic Mexico was one of only five member-states to condemn the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia. Because of this, Ethiopia kept its seat in the assembly, and it remained a member. To commemorate Mexico's assistance to Ethiopia during its occupation by Italy; Ethiopia named a center square in Addis Ababa "Mexico Square".

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I’m 12 years old and I love your vids it helps me in school bc I learn a lot about war history

I learn more history by one episode then history at school in a month

mussalioni: haha ethiopia is gonna lose! hoi4 memer: im abouta end this mans whole carrer

This is one of the most brutal invasions I've ever heard about

Very well made

Que buen vídeo!

League of Nations: are you using chemical weapons on a third world country? Italian: uhmmmm no League of Nations: Then why is the air so spicy

Can you do a video about the Malayan "Emergency"? 1948-1960 aka Britain's Vietnam

Hey I watched this on my own, but now I watch it for class . t has all come full circle for me.

Good editing

Italo Turkish War (1911-1912)

There are some historical misconceptions in the video: 1) Eritrea and Somalia were actually Italian colonies way before mussolini rise to power, both were established before the first world war even even in the end of 1890. 2) the crisis of 1929 had no serious impact in italy since the construction of IRI meant that 40 percent of the industry was owned by the state and therefore the state itself incentivated the economy to grow keeping them open, it wasn't a way to distract people but a way to show off the Italian might since the British were not able to conquer Ethiopia too. Plus the autarchy system that was in use in Italy meant that the sanctions had no serious impact because everything was self produced or imported from allied countries if needed 3) the global argument about biological and chemical warfare established after ww1 did not restricted the possibility to produce and to stock chemical weapons something that bot the allies like Britain, and the German Reich did. The German Reich didn't used them to avoid an attack from the allies in civilians and because Hitler faced the gasses during ww1 and feared their effects. The agreement about chemical weapons stated that they were not to be used as a main offense weapon but as a retaliation one in case of non military personnel fighting and ambushing the enemy army or civilians like it was the case during the libian pacification or the Ethiopian war. Ethiopians and libians captured and skinned alive or removed the scapls of Italian soldiers and civilians, this was a justified use by the international laws, indeed cruel but saw a limited use in the war and it would had no sustainal side effect on the war effort if it wasn't used. Furthermore the idea to use gas on a large scale was put in action by Badoglio even before he could send a request to mussolini itself, a decision took by an incompetent general

It’s good that you show the horrible things that happened in that horrible and unfortunately forget war

Abyssinian crisis: *happens* League of Nations: imma pretend I didn’t see that.

My grandfather was sent in Ethiopia and there was just one story that he kept telling whenever people asked him. As soon as he arrived at his camp the superior told him and all the new ones that their boots were the most valuable thing they had, they had to take care of them, should have not ruined them, lost them, and most importantly they had to sleep wearing them, because the Ethiopians really liked attacking at night. And that's exactly what happened. He woke up to one of his fellows shouting "The moors are here!" so he grabbed his rifle and was about the get out, but he shared his tent with another soldier that didn't have his boots on, so he sat there watching his back. However, as he heard noise behind him, he turned, and as soon as he saw the Ethiopian open the tent he shot and got him in the chest. He turned to check on his comrade, just to find him dead, one boot on, the other in his hands, his head hanging from his neck almost chopped off and an Ethiopian standing besides him. He was about to lunge at my Grandpa since he wasn't done cycling the bolt yet, but he was killed by another soldier nearby, after a brief fight they repelled the attack. This was the only time he saw combat, he mostly did transport/ logistic, when he came back he drove military trains at first, then civilian ones. He told me the Allies didn't care which was which, so one time his train got attacked by planes and half of it derailed. Luckily there were no people inside, no one got hurt.

This is equivalent as a college student going to fight a 1st grade class, and losing

7:52 that sound in the background is the overlord tank from cnc generals! :D

God bless 🙌 🙏 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 my land

Wow these videos have gotten great! Keep it up!🙂

Even with all their “might” it took Italy gassing and killing innocent villagers to defeat Ethiopia...

Can you make a video on the first Italo Ethiopian war?

If you stare at the abyss long enough, The Italians will invade it.

It's so important to know about the lesser known wars! I didn't even know this invasion happened!

Kingdom of Italy 17. March 1861 - 2. June 1946 🇮🇹

You are the best cool video

The Italians never colonized Ethiopia, it was only a struggle.

Mussolini: "Is there any nation who use Bows and Arrows we can actually invade?" Abyssinia: **Exist** Mussolini: *"It's free Real estate"*

Talk about the Traíra Operation, when FARC communist forces of Colombia invaded Brazil, attacked and army camp and stole the weapons and supplies, and then, the Brazilian Army hunted down the FARCS and within a few hours, the faction was almost entirely dead.

The music around 2:00-3:00 reminds me of ‘I have no mouth and I must scream’

I am Italian,I'm so sorry really 😭😭😭

This invasion is often neglected or quickly summarized whenever WW2 is discussed intelligently. It’s honestly disheartening because the Italian military brutalized the native population; utilizing deadly gas weaponry, relentless bombing campaigns, and superior armored vehicles. Let’s hope that more people discover and preserve this “forgotten piece of history”. 🇪🇹🇮🇹

The comments are 0% about this video 20%asking for more videos 80%about puns and jokes

Can you do a video on the Italian invasion in Greece?

Italy before the gas on the war: troops, tanks, cannons, guns, trucks, bombs, planes Abyssinia: muskets and spears, gg ez

Thank you for covering this. More people should know about this tragedy

You forgot the part where post ww1, because Italy allied with the entente, France and Britain had promised Ethiopia to italy. So when Italy went to collect, Britain and France reneged.

@MR XoyKavións who said “I'm about to end this man's whole career”, I can’t reply (for the moment i hope) for the error 429, but anyway you must study and know what fronts Italy had in ww2 and learn what i wrote in the comments below.

For who is interested in this war, i suggest reading "La guerra di ethiopia" by pietro badoglio, i think it's also in english.