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Italo-Ethiopian War: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1935 - 1936
Location Ethiopia
Participants Ethiopia • Italy

Photos

Italian soldiers in the Italo-Ethiopian War
Two bodies with ropes tied to their feet lie on a littered street in Addis Ababa, with damaged buildings in the background, after the Italian capture in May 1936.
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Key People

Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator
Haile Selassie, 1967
Haile Selassie I
emperor of Ethiopia
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
prime minister of United Kingdom
Pietro Badoglio.
Pietro Badoglio
Italian general and statesman
Emilio De Bono
Emilio De Bono
Italian general and politician

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