One More Scramble in Africa - The Second Italo-Abyssinian War | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 4 of 4 - YouTube (2)

built. Asmara becomes a testing ground for a variety of architectural styles ranging

from modernist to art deco to futurist to neoclassical. Efforts are made to more integrate

the colonies with the Italian economy such as by establishing Linea dell' Impero (the

Imperial Line), a flight route which includes Italy, Libya, and East Africa.

However, violence does continue. An Abyssinian insurgency, mainly by royalist loyalists known

as the Black Lions, continues to plague the colonizers. The attempted assassination of

Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Italian East Africa 1937 results in a retribution that

claims the lives of thousands, particularly the Coptic clergy. In the meantime, Haile

Selassie flees to Britain and Italy gradually attains recognition of its new territory,

including by Britain. Though Italy's victory is decisive, it and the guerrilla insurgency

that follows does must to exhaust the army's resources, which will take time to replenish,

while Mussolini is already eyeing Spain and then the Balkans for possible intervention.

Furthermore, the League of Nations inability to keep Mussolini from annexing Abyssinia

shows that they are not capable of anything but making empty threats.

So not only has Italy re-ignited the colonial conquest of Africa, subjugating peoples far

away form the Italian peninsula to create a new empire, they have shown to the world

that the League of Nations is for all practical purposes nothing but a toothless paper tiger.

For the likes of Hitler, Tojo, and Stalin this is provident news in view of their plans

for their neighboring countries.

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