In HOI4, you don't need to ask "what air defence doing?", as you are in control of it, can not worry about the Javelins, as they haven't been invented yet and can actually finish the war in 3 days! Crazy notions, but all of them are true: play.heartsofiron.com/KingsAndGenerals! HOI4 is free to play right now!
@King and Generals: At 07:13 you mentioned Mussolini's Facist 'Brown' shirts. Here you are wrong. The Fascists were called 'Black shirts' due to their black shirts they were wearing. The German NSDAP had brown shirts derived from German army surplus.
Fun Fact: It has taken longer for Paradox Interactive to give Italy a real focus tree than it took for the world to fight the entire Second World War 🤣
@Kings and Generals Thank you for this video, it's very informative and helpful, thank you for that. I have a suggestion which you can do later on, can you do a video based on the Lake Khasan 1938 just like you did with the battle of khalkin Gol 1939? It'll be beneficial for the context of the Pacific War series which helps to explain why the Japanese didn't invade Soviet Union, especially when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Thank you once again for the video, and please let me know soon what you think.
We re not a mighty nation, and we have no weapons, but we know wrong from right. President Vicente Fox condemned and opposed USA´s invasion of Irak 20 years ago at a moment where Mexico was part of the UN´s securyity council.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi - If you guys could get rid of your cartels, you would be a good country. They are so insanely brutal though, it takes up a lot of mental space when people think of Mexico. You can't watch a cartel torture video without it changing you.
@@axumitedessalegn3549 Ethiopia has stopped slavery definitely before it joined the league of nations. Don't bring fascist Italian propaganda to invade Ethiopia as a source.
It's like the simplistic criticism of the UN. If even one invasion is allowed to pass, the UN has somehow utterly failed and all of its achievements are forgotten.
I dont think some of those "missions" or I say incidents, not directly involved by League of Nations. For example Musoul Crisis is practicly between Turkey and England. The other nations was just... there.
Ethiopia is a very underrated country when it’s come to History. Ethiopia is literally considered one of the most ancient civilisations on the planet and also the oldest Christian state in the world (along side Armenia)
Tis the game of empire, and the world where sphere's of influence dominated. Colonial empires telling other colonial empires they can't have more colonies goes all the way back to Portugal and Spain were bickering over south america. Even before that, the game of empires could be seen when Rome was Telling the Seleucid empire they couldn't have Egypt as a province, Same thing with the Romans and dozens of barbarian tribes to other barbarian tribes, The Byzantines and the Goths in Italy, the Byzantines and the Sassanids over Armenia, etc. Considering it ironic is true, but ignores the motives, interests and realities on the ground.
So those with sin are incapable of condemning it in others? Sounds like your advocating a race to the bottom. Also by the 1930s many of the colonial powers already had promises to decolonize countries such as India, Philippines, Syria etc while some like Egypt had already regained most of its autonomy.
Ethiopian history is probably one of the most underrated histories of any nation around. At least with other “underrated histories”, like with Eastern European countries or Persia or the Aztecs/Inca, they get brought up in discussions about countries with underrated histories. But Ethiopia’s history is a truly wild ride from start to finish, and it never really gets brought up since it didn’t have a massive impact on European society. (Of course, it’s understandable that North Americans and Europeans would pay the most attention to North America and Europe, but it still means you miss out on a lot of cool stories and events from elsewhere.) If you ever find the time, I’d highly recommend at least skimming the Wikipedia page for the History of Ethiopia, or reading about some of Ethiopia’s emperors, such as the guy who was made emperor despite having no political experience and being raised alone in a monastery and then proceeded to solve every military and religious dispute the country had (Zara Yaqob), or the guy who converted the entire country to Catholicism for like 10 years (Susenyos), or the guy who was coronated and deposed six separate times (Tekle Giyorgis I). There’s a lot of hilariously improbable tales of survival and ridiculous wars that match the Italo-Ethiopian Wars in their vibe, so it’s definitely worth taking a look in my opinion.
Very true! We're always bombarded with Western History so much that we have no clue of the other worthy histories around the world. Especially, Ethiopia!
@@ybwjbw3348 How are you bombarded? If you live in Western hemosphere, is natural to learn first about West's history than other regions. I don't think people in Asia are learning first the history of America let's say than theirs.
@@bobbatons1720 Bold of you to assume am in the West. Anyway, when you start history, you'll start where humans originated from (East Africa) and then u move on. Yes, you're right, you'll learn your country's history first, however, as a person who has been educate many places, let me tell you, most education system were designed/or follow the West system, that they miss or don't give much emphesis about their own country, including mine. We will learn more about Thomas Edison than other inventors that were Africans. In addition, your government plays an important role in education, some tyrant type of leaders will hide the country's history just spite of it. So yes.....bombarded!!!!!!!!!
I'm 81. When I was a young man my Mother, who was born in 1913 told me about the time she saw a cinema newsreel, showing the Pope blessing the Italian troops and tanks on their way to Abyssinia. Mustard gas bombs against brave men armed with spears and riding on horseback. How shameful. But evidently blessed by the Pope.
Tbf if we did something Italy didn't like he would have been replaced. In situations like that it's best to play along, especially if you are surrounded by a Fascist dictatorship.
@@propagandalf9511 Simple , He could have just said Jesus was the prince of Peace and that him being the vicar of Jesus would not wish to bless instruments of war .
@@akujobikelechi8816 And you think the facist goverment would respond with "Well ok then, if you say so we won't bother you anymore" ? Instead of just subtly replacing him with the pope who would support them.
@@propagandalf9511 No they wouldn't but Strong Catholics would begin to express their displeasure if he had done it, and Mussolini would have been forced to soft peddal , + the church and the pope would have exonerated themselves from the evil.
Real coincidence. I am Albanian and my country was invaded by Italy around the same time as Ethiopia. That means that technically we were part of the same country for a bit of time. I always was curious about Ethiopia. Guess I have to go deeper.
As an Ethiopian who grew up hearing stories of fascist Italy attacking us with airplanes, machine guns, poison gas .. the suffering they caused has no doubt left a scar. Eventually though dictators die, invaders lose and Ethiopia stands proud. The spirit and courage of my forefathers fighting fascist Italy against overwhelming odds is what I see in Ukrainians today as they fight for their country. Hopefully lessons from League of Nations are not forgotten. Thank you for an excellent video from my favorite channel.
@@Tommi414 my guy everyone have slaves in their history. Does it mean the regular civilians that don't have any say on that matter deserve the suffering they got from that fascist d!ck head?
@@pozloadescobar that would be so cool if they did! I hope HOI sponsors more videos in the future. I’m a huge fan of both these vids and HOI lol. So it makes perfect sense for them to work together.
2:05 Establishment of League of Nations following World War I 5:00 Success 5:58 Failures 6:39 Italy under Benito Mussolini & the fascist party *Italian invasion of Ethiopia* 8:22 Italy attacks Ethiopia following Abyssinian crisis 10:22 International response 15:44 Italy's condition after the war
Something interesting about the other list of things the League of Nations was involved in was how the Italian invasion of Corfu was resolved Much like the Italo-Ethiopian war, it completely favoured Italy when the conflict was resolved, even though Greece was never at fault (or proven to be) for any of it It started because an Italian general, Enrico Tellini was helping Albania and Greece defy a border in 1923, but was killed by unknown murderers in Greece. Italy used this as a reason to invade Corfu when the Greek government's response was not one to Italy's liking (for example refusing the payment of 50 million lires) Greece got the rough end of the resolution when the League told Greece she had to pay and enact certain events that would signify apology for Tellini's murder, despite the cause of his murder never truly being identified. Just many examples of the League favouring bigger nations and disregarding smaller ones because all they have to do is threaten to leave the League or something akin to that Great video as always
This may sound strange but the western powers actually would've had a harder time helping Poland and Czechoslavokia due to geography and geopolitics than helping Ethiopia. Ethiopia was betrayed and abandoned we could have helped them. The Czechs and Poles not so much, I'm not saying appeasement was justified, but I am saying not much could've been done
Hi. I have followed your channel for some years and I’m happy to see my country (Ethiopia) mentioned here because it doesn’t happen often. I will be happy if you will make a video about the first Ethiopian-Italian war.
Thank you for telling our story when the world seemed to just forget it ever happened. It's crazy how even we forget about the gruesome details of those days sometimes. I will be eagerly waiting for the future episodes as I know there is more to this story.
The League of Nations never really had any teeth and Japan and Italy exposed this from Manchuria to Ethiopia. Even today the UN seems impotent when it comes to maintaining peace.
I mean, the reason why Italy announced itself as an empire after annexing Ethiopia was that Ethiopia itself was an empire, and after being annexed by Italy, the Imperial Crown of Ethiopia fell to the hand of Italian monarch (titled the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia).
facceta nera : If you from the plateau see the sea Young black slave between slaves As in a dream you will see many ships And a tricolor flag will wave for you black face, beautiful abyssinian Wait and see the hour draws near when will we be with you We will give you another law and another king. Our law is slavery of affection Our motto is freedom and duty We will avenge the black shirts Heroes who died for you black face, beautiful abyssinian Wait and see the hour draws near when will we be with you We will give you another law and another king. Black face, beautiful Abyssinian We'll take you to liberated Rome You will be kissed by our sun And a black shirt you will be black face, you will be roman Your flag will be the Italian we will march with you And we will parade in front of the Duce and in front of the king.
Sorry I somehow missed this excellent video when it came out. Lessons here that all should understand. But sadly have not. Thank you so much my friends.
9:11 MODUS OPERANDI All European peoples treated African and Asian people with disdain. Mussolini wasn't doing anything that the other imperial powers weren't doing .
Abyssinia was a name given from outsiders, Ethiopia has been known as Ethiopia domestically and even in the middle east as Ethiopia long before even thousands of years. No such Abyssinia even existed only Ethiopia.
@@OutletR I agree Ethiopia is the correct and native term but Abyssinia is not a new name. It's atleast more than a 1000 years old. For example, in Islamic Hadith the term used is Al habesh, which is very clearly the Arabic version of Abyssinia.
It sucked for the abyssinians but Italy also freed all the slaves and officially stopped slavery. My grandfather lost the slaves that ran his shop during the occupation. Its not so black and white.
A short historical fact that could have been mentioned is during that speech in June 1936, our Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Titulescu famously reacted to the buffoonery exhibited by the Italian journalists when Emperor Haile Selassie I spoke to the League after Ethiopia had been invaded and occupied by Fascist Italy. He jumped to his feet and shouted: "To the door with the savages!". After that the Italian journalists were thrown out of the room in order to let the Emperor of Ethiopia continue his speech.
Bro, please do a series on Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (1941), Anglo -Iraqi war (1941), and Operation Exporter(Syria-Lebanon campaign) (1941) just like you did here. Also, a video on the proposed " Axis powers plan on the division of Asia".
Random fact about the devision of Asia: the Nazis and japanese planned to conquer all of Asia except for Afghanistan. Under the instructions of the Hitler regime, the plan was that the empire of Japan and the third Reich meet at central Asia and south Asia but strictly avoid any invasion of Afghanistan.
I know a number of Black Americans wanted to go over there to fight on the Ethiopian side but the United States government wouldn't permit it. But slightly more than a hundred Black Americans did find their way over there to take part in the war.
My black American Grandfather signed up as a volunteer in New York and Once in Ethiopia he fought for the Emperor and for Ethiopia. After the war, He decided to stay and have children. And I'm one of them! 🇺🇲🇪🇹
Thank you for explaining this topic so in depth my uncle would tell me stories about how the Italians would gas entire villages and so many other atrocities that seem to be over looked.
Turkish genocide never happened,ofcource greek soldiers killed some civilians during the wars of 1900s and 1910s,but Greek government never ordered organised killings against Turkish civilians
I don't understand why Germany got to pay the most money and forced to have the smallest army after the great war (world war one) when it was austria-hungary who started that war.
A great video but i can't help but feel that current events all over Europe are starting to look a lot like the stuff we see in this video. Unfortunately people have forgotten their history even though it happened less than 100 years ago.
who said that? of course Italians were outnumbered but the Italians were and the Ethiopians 70,000 - 100,000 while Italians army were a little over 17,000 fully equipped only half of them poorly armed the rest fought with sword and spear, Adwa was not the only place were Italians were defeated but also at the battle of Dogali where an Entire Italian army was defeated by Ras Alula and only few Italian soldiers survived and if you don't believe me search for the statue of heros that were massacered at the battle of dogali the Italians erected a statue for that@@Bolognabeef
@@cuzimmoody6470 late Roman empire: because of civil wars. Medieval and later: because of divisions among many small states. In the medieval period especially Italians fought well as individuals or small units and bad as armies
(this isn't widely remembered but actually Japan was considering a marriage between their princess and the heir to the Ethiopian throne at the time up to shortly before the war! Mussolini fear Japan would help Ethiopia modernize their army and Japan nearly entered the war on Ethiopia's side)
All of these "failures" of the League of Nations were successes in its goal of enforcing capitalism and colonial violence on the world. Notably absent from this list is any of the numerous atrocities committed by the British or French in Africa and Asia during this same time. The millions dead in India at the hands of British capital was the ends and the means of the League of Nations, and so was the Italo-Ethiopian War.
Do please elaborate on the numerous atrocities committed by the British or French in Africa and Asia in the 1920's, As my own knowledge of that decade in the colonies is somewhat lacking outside the Vietnam - French struggle.
@@Dr_Evil_Mc-Bad You could look up about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that took place on 13th April 1919. Troops of the Raj fired indiscriminately on a peaceful crowd that consisted of men, women and even children, until they ran out of ammunition. And this happened on a white man's order. He even made sure that there was no way to escape. Apart from this you had the standard racism in all aspects of life that the British showed towards the Indians in their own homeland. But this wasn't anything special that happened only in the 1920s. British rule in India was still a form of systemic plunder during this decade. And the false notion of "Britain giving democracy to India" when in reality not a single Indian had the ability to vote for their government : they were subjects of the empire. The reality is India adopted democracy after the British left, and decided to uphold it unlike some of the African nations. There could (or more like should) be more, but I'm not a history student, just someone who's interested in history.
Im glad someone brought this up. Like if Communism wasn't on the rise they wouldn't have given two shits about ending child labor or improving overa labor conditions. It was literally give the people a few extra bread crumbs and maybe they'll calm down
Many Italians decided to stay in Ethiopia after the war. Most stayed there until communists took over Ethiopia in 1974. Source: I have relatives who were born in Ethiopia who still can speak the language 55 years after leaving the country.
An extremely relevant set of stories from the past - history is yet being written but my hope is the example of the betrayal of Ethiopia and the failure of nations to defeat aggression and/or appease dictatorships is not lost on the present. It may cost a great deal of lives and treasure, but far less to strangle a nascent tyranny bent on conquest than to ignore it and see it grow emboldened and threaten even more nations.
Suggestion for another video: How the world Betrayed Czechoslovakia 1938 and if you'll find it interesting, I think that alternative history The munich war could be very good scenario.Or the border clashes between Czech border guards/army vs SS and Sudetendeutche units.
True, but Russia started this war in 2014 (8 years ago) from annexing of Crimea and installing puppet governments of so called "DPR" and "LPR". The 2022 invasion was simply the attempt to finish the job. How do you think, did world do enough to help us, Ukrainians? We surrendered 3-rd world's nuclrear arsenal for guarantees from USA, UK and russia (Budapest memorandum - total failure of a guarantee if you read it). Even Civilized countries, like USA and UE block refused to sell us arms. And now russia threatens us and West with nuclear war. Many electronics in russia's war tech in 2022's was of France, Germany and other countries regardless of the ban of selling weapons to aggressive russia, altough we don't really know how it happend, but there are some suspitions. In 2008, after russia started a war against small country of Georgia USA interwened and saved Georgia, but with cost of Northern Osetia which is still in russia's grip. So, how do you think, did civilized world did enough?
@@lordoblivion8038 Agree, we can't say that world didn't do anything, particularly USA, UK and EU bloc. Ok, USA helped in lowering oil&gas prices, which, concidering 50% of russian budget consists of, was a significant blow to russia, but when oil prices returned - they started a bigger war, this time officially. Also USA donated 300mil.dollars annually of important but insignificant military tech, which is a small sum for USA and whole other world
the invasion of bulgaria was an incident which was ironic because it started by a dog crossing the border and his master a major tried to found him and he go shot by bulgarian troops and that sparked the invasion the involvent of the un was mostly symbolic because both sides knew what was all about
@Kings and Generals 6:11 "It failed in stopping the genocides conducted by the Greeks and Turks against each other". "Atrocities" is not the same as genocide. Can you please provide your (contemporary) sources for Greeks conducting genocide against Turks? You have started adopting quite a few "odd" claims recently...
@@dayros2023 Tigrayans are being suppressed by mafia warlordship. That issue could have been resolved almost 1.5 years ago if the Ethiopian government had decided to deal harshly with those thugs in Tigray. TPLF lost a lot of oxygen, but as long as there is oxygen. It continously remains a problem.
@@Omer1996E.C But in any case there is a foreign army on ethiopian soil right now. I doubt that the eritreans are shedding blood just to be friends with the ethiopian government, you can bet that they will get a piece of ethiopia in exchange.
Hearing both the successes n failures of the League of Nations in equal measure is interesting. I'm sure it would've had far less failures if the US had become a part of it. Oh well. Great video.
Wilson never should have proposed the League of Nations, especially without the approval of the US first. The US didn't want to get involved in the world's problems and knowing history now. It was a good choice then and should have stuck to that policy.
Great video and great timing! (for both the Dlc release and the far right victory at the Italian elections.) As an Italian, I really don't understand how so many people in my country still look up to Mussolini. This video alone presents all reasons why that regime was rotten to the core and was our darkest period in history.
@@direpenguin712 Don't need to, this video just reported facts that you can find in any real history book about this period. Including my high school history book.
@@francescosantambrogio6421 Indeed the majority of yt "history" channels like this one are simplistic high school level science to brainwash the masses.
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In HOI4, you don't need to ask "what air defence doing?", as you are in control of it, can not worry about the Javelins, as they haven't been invented yet and can actually finish the war in 3 days! Crazy notions, but all of them are true: play.heartsofiron.com/KingsAndGenerals! HOI4 is free to play right now!
@King and Generals: At 07:13 you mentioned Mussolini's Facist 'Brown' shirts. Here you are wrong.
The Fascists were called 'Black shirts' due to their black shirts they were wearing.
The German NSDAP had brown shirts derived from German army surplus.
Blood Alone!
It looks amazing, but so completed. I'm afraid that my IQ isn't high enough lol.
Fun Fact: It has taken longer for Paradox Interactive to give Italy a real focus tree than it took for the world to fight the entire Second World War 🤣
@Kings and Generals Thank you for this video, it's very informative and helpful, thank you for that. I have a suggestion which you can do later on, can you do a video based on the Lake Khasan 1938 just like you did with the battle of khalkin Gol 1939? It'll be beneficial for the context of the Pacific War series which helps to explain why the Japanese didn't invade Soviet Union, especially when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Thank you once again for the video, and please let me know soon what you think.
“It is us today, it will be you tomorrow.”
- Haile Selassie I to the League
Haile Selassie I
A statement still in common use among ethiopians until today
@@Omer1996E.C he not lying, look at the state of europe today.
History prove him right because 3 years later, europe exploded into a war
Very prophetic.
As an Ethiopian it makes me very sad no one cared about Haile Sellasie's appeal. Thank you for the Mexicans who condemned the invasion
We re not a mighty nation, and we have no weapons, but we know wrong from right. President Vicente Fox condemned and opposed USA´s invasion of Irak 20 years ago at a moment where Mexico was part of the UN´s securyity council.
As a proud Mexican I am glad to hear that Mexico condemned Italy for the invasion.
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi - If you guys could get rid of your cartels, you would be a good country. They are so insanely brutal though, it takes up a lot of mental space when people think of Mexico. You can't watch a cartel torture video without it changing you.
Ethiopia should have never been allowed in the league of nations. It was the only country that still practiced slavery.
@@axumitedessalegn3549 Ethiopia has stopped slavery definitely before it joined the league of nations. Don't bring fascist Italian propaganda to invade Ethiopia as a source.
I had no idea the League of Nations did more than just try peace keeping. That was an impressive list of missions
It's like the simplistic criticism of the UN. If even one invasion is allowed to pass, the UN has somehow utterly failed and all of its achievements are forgotten.
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At least they tried 🤔🤔
Yep
I dont think some of those "missions" or I say incidents, not directly involved by League of Nations. For example Musoul Crisis is practicly between Turkey and England. The other nations was just... there.
Ethiopia is a very underrated country when it’s come to History.
Ethiopia is literally considered one of the most ancient civilisations on the planet and also the oldest Christian state in the world (along side Armenia)
and that gives them a super super uego..most countries with these old histories are egotistical..pass
Uga buga
@@bravenotsorryAR of course the comment came from Italian. Still mad for what my ancestors did to yours?
@@theassassin9326As someone who know Italians I can tell you that Italians still hate Ethiopians to this day.
The irony of colonial empires telling other colonial empires that they can't have more colonies than they already have.
They said Germany was trying to take over the world, when the Allies already did.
Tis the game of empire, and the world where sphere's of influence dominated. Colonial empires telling other colonial empires they can't have more colonies goes all the way back to Portugal and Spain were bickering over south america.
Even before that, the game of empires could be seen when Rome was Telling the Seleucid empire they couldn't have Egypt as a province, Same thing with the Romans and dozens of barbarian tribes to other barbarian tribes, The Byzantines and the Goths in Italy, the Byzantines and the Sassanids over Armenia, etc. Considering it ironic is true, but ignores the motives, interests and realities on the ground.
Yeah things have to be better organized next time around. China is about to reignite the scramble for Africa. They think they can take the whole thing
Similar to nuclear powers telling other nations they can’t have nuclear weapons too?
So those with sin are incapable of condemning it in others? Sounds like your advocating a race to the bottom. Also by the 1930s many of the colonial powers already had promises to decolonize countries such as India, Philippines, Syria etc while some like Egypt had already regained most of its autonomy.
Ethiopian history is probably one of the most underrated histories of any nation around. At least with other “underrated histories”, like with Eastern European countries or Persia or the Aztecs/Inca, they get brought up in discussions about countries with underrated histories. But Ethiopia’s history is a truly wild ride from start to finish, and it never really gets brought up since it didn’t have a massive impact on European society. (Of course, it’s understandable that North Americans and Europeans would pay the most attention to North America and Europe, but it still means you miss out on a lot of cool stories and events from elsewhere.)
If you ever find the time, I’d highly recommend at least skimming the Wikipedia page for the History of Ethiopia, or reading about some of Ethiopia’s emperors, such as the guy who was made emperor despite having no political experience and being raised alone in a monastery and then proceeded to solve every military and religious dispute the country had (Zara Yaqob), or the guy who converted the entire country to Catholicism for like 10 years (Susenyos), or the guy who was coronated and deposed six separate times (Tekle Giyorgis I). There’s a lot of hilariously improbable tales of survival and ridiculous wars that match the Italo-Ethiopian Wars in their vibe, so it’s definitely worth taking a look in my opinion.
Thank you man 👍🏼
Very true! We're always bombarded with Western History so much that we have no clue of the other worthy histories around the world. Especially, Ethiopia!
Extra Credits TH-cam channel have created a six part series covering some of the best bits, but even they admit they missed out alot.
@@ybwjbw3348 How are you bombarded? If you live in Western hemosphere, is natural to learn first about West's history than other regions. I don't think people in Asia are learning first the history of America let's say than theirs.
@@bobbatons1720 Bold of you to assume am in the West. Anyway, when you start history, you'll start where humans originated from (East Africa) and then u move on. Yes, you're right, you'll learn your country's history first, however, as a person who has been educate many places, let me tell you, most education system were designed/or follow the West system, that they miss or don't give much emphesis about their own country, including mine. We will learn more about Thomas Edison than other inventors that were Africans. In addition, your government plays an important role in education, some tyrant type of leaders will hide the country's history just spite of it. So yes.....bombarded!!!!!!!!!
I'm 81. When I was a young man my Mother, who was born in 1913 told me about the time she saw a cinema newsreel, showing the Pope blessing the Italian troops and tanks on their way to Abyssinia. Mustard gas bombs against brave men armed with spears and riding on horseback. How shameful. But evidently blessed by the Pope.
What would he do? He was the head of a microstate sorrounded and treatened by Italy
Tbf if we did something Italy didn't like he would have been replaced. In situations like that it's best to play along, especially if you are surrounded by a Fascist dictatorship.
@@propagandalf9511 Simple , He could have just said Jesus was the prince of Peace and that him being the vicar of Jesus would not wish to bless instruments of war .
@@akujobikelechi8816 And you think the facist goverment would respond with "Well ok then, if you say so we won't bother you anymore" ?
Instead of just subtly replacing him with the pope who would support them.
@@propagandalf9511 No they wouldn't but Strong Catholics would begin to express their displeasure if he had done it, and Mussolini would have been forced to soft peddal , + the church and the pope would have exonerated themselves from the evil.
I appreciate how you talk about the little known victories of the League, at 6:00 to 7:00.
I think you meant 5:00 to 6:00 as the victories.
6 to 7 are the failures. 😳❤️
Yes, I appreciate that too. As an Ethiopian we were taught at school that it was a total disaster.
@@apexnext touché. My bad.
Abyssinia was the embodiment of the failure of appeasement...
Kings and Generals for Military history, Mr Mitchell for political history 👌
and just to reinforce that point, the Munich agreement and the dissolution of the Czechoslovak state would come soon after…
ww2 is the embodiment of failure of appeasement
Real coincidence. I am Albanian and my country was invaded by Italy around the same time as Ethiopia. That means that technically we were part of the same country for a bit of time. I always was curious about Ethiopia. Guess I have to go deeper.
We, just like Albania, also resisted the Ottoman Empire.
As an Ethiopian who grew up hearing stories of fascist Italy attacking us with airplanes, machine guns, poison gas .. the suffering they caused has no doubt left a scar. Eventually though dictators die, invaders lose and Ethiopia stands proud. The spirit and courage of my forefathers fighting fascist Italy against overwhelming odds is what I see in Ukrainians today as they fight for their country. Hopefully lessons from League of Nations are not forgotten. Thank you for an excellent video from my favorite channel.
@@Tommi414 my guy everyone have slaves in their history. Does it mean the regular civilians that don't have any say on that matter deserve the suffering they got from that fascist d!ck head?
You guys were definitely competent fighters. Best of luck in the future.
Ukraine was invaded because NATO wanted to put its soldiers there. Blame nato.
@@jakejhons5138 - No, that is Russian propaganda. Russia invaded because they wanted to secure sectors of Ukraine for their own benefit.
@@Tommi414 Nope that's a fascist propaganda
I'm liking the HOI 4 style icons. Nicely done K&G!! It's good to have videos covering the more esoteric context behind WWII.
Hats off to the amount of information in videos on this channel. We appreciate your work mate
I love how they use HOI icons for talking about the League of Nations various departments
I wonder if they used HOI4 as the mapping engine for these videos. It sure looks like they did
@@pozloadescobar that would be so cool if they did! I hope HOI sponsors more videos in the future. I’m a huge fan of both these vids and HOI lol. So it makes perfect sense for them to work together.
2:05 Establishment of League of Nations following World War I
5:00 Success
5:58 Failures
6:39 Italy under Benito Mussolini & the fascist party
*Italian invasion of Ethiopia*
8:22 Italy attacks Ethiopia following Abyssinian crisis
10:22 International response
15:44 Italy's condition after the war
Yo this comment is actually very useful
It is us today, it will be you tomorrow...
- Haile Selassie I to the League of Nations
15:44 you forgot to add Haile Selassie's most iconic quote: "it is us today, it would be you tomorrow."
Something interesting about the other list of things the League of Nations was involved in was how the Italian invasion of Corfu was resolved
Much like the Italo-Ethiopian war, it completely favoured Italy when the conflict was resolved, even though Greece was never at fault (or proven to be) for any of it
It started because an Italian general, Enrico Tellini was helping Albania and Greece defy a border in 1923, but was killed by unknown murderers in Greece. Italy used this as a reason to invade Corfu when the Greek government's response was not one to Italy's liking (for example refusing the payment of 50 million lires)
Greece got the rough end of the resolution when the League told Greece she had to pay and enact certain events that would signify apology for Tellini's murder, despite the cause of his murder never truly being identified. Just many examples of the League favouring bigger nations and disregarding smaller ones because all they have to do is threaten to leave the League or something akin to that
Great video as always
Now I'm waiting for "How the World Betrayed Czechoslovakia" & "How the World Betrayed Poland"...
Désolé
This may sound strange but the western powers actually would've had a harder time helping Poland and Czechoslavokia due to geography and geopolitics than helping Ethiopia. Ethiopia was betrayed and abandoned we could have helped them. The Czechs and Poles not so much, I'm not saying appeasement was justified, but I am saying not much could've been done
Funny that poland at that time also take czechoslovakia land, tho it later still get cuckednby more ambitious Germant
Poland took back land that was taken previously by Czechoslovakia.
So basically "How the World is keeping to betrays the World"
Hi. I have followed your channel for some years and I’m happy to see my country (Ethiopia) mentioned here because it doesn’t happen often. I will be happy if you will make a video about the first Ethiopian-Italian war.
Thank you for telling our story when the world seemed to just forget it ever happened. It's crazy how even we forget about the gruesome details of those days sometimes. I will be eagerly waiting for the future episodes as I know there is more to this story.
can the story of slavery in ethiopia be told as well?
The League of Nations never really had any teeth and Japan and Italy exposed this from Manchuria to Ethiopia. Even today the UN seems impotent when it comes to maintaining peace.
the UN's track record in the Balkans is okay, I mean they have kept the peace their since 1990's.
UN has prevented a winter
That's the biggest success anyone has ever achieved anywhere bar mythological and science fiction victories
Italy after annexing Ethiopia: “we are now an empire!”
Eritreans Somalis and Libyans: “are we a joke to you?”
Italy: "Is this a trick question?"
@@Taistelukalkkuna yes because Italians are the real joke
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I mean, the reason why Italy announced itself as an empire after annexing Ethiopia was that Ethiopia itself was an empire, and after being annexed by Italy, the Imperial Crown of Ethiopia fell to the hand of Italian monarch (titled the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia).
@@dpr9921 he declared that "annexation" a bit soon. He was still very much in the middle of an active war with Ethiopia.
You guys should make a video on the Italian invasion of Libya as it’s one of the most fascinating wars of that era
facceta nera : If you from the plateau see the sea
Young black slave between slaves
As in a dream you will see many ships
And a tricolor flag will wave for you
black face,
beautiful abyssinian
Wait and see the hour draws near
when will we be
with you
We will give you another law and another king.
Our law is slavery of affection
Our motto is freedom and duty
We will avenge the black shirts
Heroes who died for you
black face,
beautiful abyssinian
Wait and see the hour draws near
when will we be
with you
We will give you another law and another king.
Black face, beautiful Abyssinian
We'll take you to liberated Rome
You will be kissed by our sun
And a black shirt you will be
black face,
you will be roman
Your flag will be the Italian
we will march
with you
And we will parade in front of the Duce and in front of the king.
Sorry I somehow missed this excellent video when it came out. Lessons here that all should understand. But sadly have not.
Thank you so much my friends.
Wow you are a real historian . I am an Ethiopian and i knew my history verymuch. But today you give me much detailed information and knowledge 🎉🎉
It will be Really interesting if u could do the first Ethio-italian war...
9:11
MODUS OPERANDI
All European peoples treated African and Asian people with disdain.
Mussolini wasn't doing anything that the other imperial powers weren't doing .
It is easy to discuss the failures of the league, but the failures of the United Nations are devastating.
Devastating and ongoing! The Security Council will only be remembered as an embarrassment to humankind
@@pozloadescobar No it will be remembered just like the League was remembered here ; It had successes and failures.
I have learnt a lot from here thank u so much
If you thought this was cynical, you want to check out the Non-Intervention Committee during the Spanish Civil War.
We failed Ethiopia, Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, many more.
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Also Finland and China
Mexico stood with Ethiopia when many turned their backs. Long Live Mexico
Please consider a video about the Little Entente & Balkan Pact. How they formed and how they fell apart.
abyyssinias resistance was heroic even if it was unsuccessful. I read a book on the invasion once it was quite harrowing
Abyssinia was a name given from outsiders, Ethiopia has been known as Ethiopia domestically and even in the middle east as Ethiopia long before even thousands of years. No such Abyssinia even existed only Ethiopia.
@@nonbreapelido3549 could you prove this
It was eventually succesful. Many regions hadnt witnessed Italian rule by the time of full Itallian defeat.
@@OutletR
I agree Ethiopia is the correct and native term but Abyssinia is not a new name. It's atleast more than a 1000 years old. For example, in Islamic Hadith the term used is Al habesh, which is very clearly the Arabic version of Abyssinia.
It sucked for the abyssinians but Italy also freed all the slaves and officially stopped slavery. My grandfather lost the slaves that ran his shop during the occupation. Its not so black and white.
A short historical fact that could have been mentioned is during that speech in June 1936, our Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Titulescu famously reacted to the buffoonery exhibited by the Italian journalists when Emperor Haile Selassie I spoke to the League after Ethiopia had been invaded and occupied by Fascist Italy. He jumped to his feet and shouted: "To the door with the savages!". After that the Italian journalists were thrown out of the room in order to let the Emperor of Ethiopia continue his speech.
Bro, please do a series on Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (1941), Anglo -Iraqi war (1941), and Operation Exporter(Syria-Lebanon campaign) (1941) just like you did here. Also, a video on the proposed " Axis powers plan on the division of Asia".
Random fact about the devision of Asia: the Nazis and japanese planned to conquer all of Asia except for Afghanistan. Under the instructions of the Hitler regime, the plan was that the empire of Japan and the third Reich meet at central Asia and south Asia but strictly avoid any invasion of Afghanistan.
@@akiogood4712 Afghanistan was a pro-German country. The then Afghan king was a fan of Hitler and even visit him in Germany.
@@akiogood4712 source?
@@Smithington_ trust me bro
@@Smithington_ book called "Afghanistan between the Great Powers, 1938 - 1945" by Milan L. Hauner.
A rarely covered topic that is so very important to history, thank you 👏
I know a number of Black Americans wanted to go over there to fight on the Ethiopian side but the United States government wouldn't permit it. But slightly more than a hundred Black Americans did find their way over there to take part in the war.
Another perfect documentary. Thank you.
Ethiopia today Poland and the Czech Republic tomorrow. It's amazing how many countries were sacrificed for appeasement.
My black American Grandfather signed up as a volunteer in New York and Once in Ethiopia he fought for the Emperor and for Ethiopia. After the war, He decided to stay and have children. And I'm one of them! 🇺🇲🇪🇹
Thank you brother 🇪🇹
@@tewodrossamson790 ❤
@dark enlightenment baka
Ethiopians aren't black
@@australianjackaroo6660 yes we are
Thank you for explaining this topic so in depth my uncle would tell me stories about how the Italians would gas entire villages and so many other atrocities that seem to be over looked.
What is sad, while context is well explained, battles that occured in war are skipped, so desereves another video
Turkish genocide never happened,ofcource greek soldiers killed some civilians during the wars of 1900s and 1910s,but Greek government never ordered organised killings against Turkish civilians
Love the background music in this episode
I would love to see a World War II video on Operation Compass, one of the most underrated victories.
I don't understand why Germany got to pay the most money and forced to have the smallest army after the great war (world war one) when it was austria-hungary who started that war.
Because France and UK was so butt-hurt by Germany during the war that they wanted revenge, blinding posing the bases for WW2 and nazism.
Thanks a bunch for regularly serving informational content, bless y’all.
Great channel run by industrious and ambitious people. Substantive content is in short supply these days
A great video but i can't help but feel that current events all over Europe are starting to look a lot like the stuff we see in this video. Unfortunately people have forgotten their history even though it happened less than 100 years ago.
This time around Europe is actually supporting the invaded country though
@@deathbyastonishment7930 sure buddy
@@perhaps1094 Do you not believe that Europe is supporting Ukraine?
@@perhaps1094 As a side note, RIP DOOM
Don't forget about "ADWA" the great African victory against an European nation. Proud of my history
That happened during the first italo-ethiopian war in 1896. This is about the second Italo-ethiopian war :)
15,000 Vs 300,000 with 150,000 armed with rifles... What a victory 😂
who said that? of course Italians were outnumbered but the Italians were and the Ethiopians 70,000 - 100,000 while Italians army were a little over 17,000 fully equipped only half of them poorly armed the rest fought with sword and spear, Adwa was not the only place were Italians were defeated but also at the battle of Dogali where an Entire Italian army was defeated by Ras Alula and only few Italian soldiers survived and if you don't believe me search for the statue of heros that were massacered at the battle of dogali the Italians erected a statue for that@@Bolognabeef
@@jhonywalker1168Macalle' and Amba Alagi, too.
The grabs and snatchings are still high up.
As an italian I find this video perfect
@@cuzimmoody6470 u mean now or in the past? If you go enough far in the past, we were actually the best
@@cuzimmoody6470 late Roman empire: because of civil wars. Medieval and later: because of divisions among many small states. In the medieval period especially Italians fought well as individuals or small units and bad as armies
Al dente.
@@cuzimmoody6470 Bruh all of Europe has been overwhelmed by the barbarian invasions, what example would that of the Visigoths?
@@radec5166 if thats the case the people that got invaded would be the barbarians loser eurofags
Nothing really changed. Quite fascinating.
Love the videos, keep it up!
at 14:04 Leon Blum spoke the truth and nothing but the truth 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Ethiopia has a civilization called the Abyssinian civilization love Ethiopia from Egypt ❤❤❤
Not that anything like this is happening as we speak, 11/10 again K&G team.
#6:14 There never was a Turkish Genoside done by the Greeks quite the opposite to be exact .
With historical accuracy I can say that no “Turkish genocide” ever happened by Greece…
watching from addis ababa, i hope you guys explore more on ethiopian and the horn of africa. subbed since 700k
(this isn't widely remembered but actually Japan was considering a marriage between their princess and the heir to the Ethiopian throne at the time up to shortly before the war! Mussolini fear Japan would help Ethiopia modernize their army and Japan nearly entered the war on Ethiopia's side)
Good to know some people know this!
can you sand a link abut this plizzz Michael Stone
@@adiseymah760422 hear you go!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia%E2%80%93Japan_relations see the subsection Ethiopian Empire
Another banger documentary. Kinda sad though this channel is able to pump out so many episodes about war if you think about it
This is such a match made in heaven! So glad to see you working with PDX ^^
Maybe you could do in the future a video about the Netherlands
Great editing, narration, and music. Thanks for this documentary!!!
and nowadays, if you're in a certain group of countries, all you have to fear from the UN is a stern letter.
The UN was active in the Balkans in the 1990's and continue to keep the peace there as well as in Cypress.
True
@@theawesomeman9821 safe to say serbia wasn't in that certain group of countries
The funny thing was the weapons sales embargo on both sides.which only affected ethiopia which has zero military industry
Two more hours and by blood alone will be out. Either way I'm glad HOI4 (Paradox) is sponsoring, it's my two favorite things to do working together.
We be doing 'em empire today
If DLCs were colonies Paradox would be the largest empire.
@@avlaus2629 The EU4 DLCs 💀
@@avlaus2629 factual
Thank you , Amazing work
All of these "failures" of the League of Nations were successes in its goal of enforcing capitalism and colonial violence on the world. Notably absent from this list is any of the numerous atrocities committed by the British or French in Africa and Asia during this same time. The millions dead in India at the hands of British capital was the ends and the means of the League of Nations, and so was the Italo-Ethiopian War.
Do please elaborate on the numerous atrocities committed by the British or French in Africa and Asia in the 1920's, As my own knowledge of that decade in the colonies is somewhat lacking outside the Vietnam - French struggle.
So true, and the French wonder why Saharan Africans don't want their troops there!?
@@Dr_Evil_Mc-Bad You could look up about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that took place on 13th April 1919. Troops of the Raj fired indiscriminately on a peaceful crowd that consisted of men, women and even children, until they ran out of ammunition. And this happened on a white man's order. He even made sure that there was no way to escape.
Apart from this you had the standard racism in all aspects of life that the British showed towards the Indians in their own homeland. But this wasn't anything special that happened only in the 1920s. British rule in India was still a form of systemic plunder during this decade. And the false notion of "Britain giving democracy to India" when in reality not a single Indian had the ability to vote for their government : they were subjects of the empire. The reality is India adopted democracy after the British left, and decided to uphold it unlike some of the African nations.
There could (or more like should) be more, but I'm not a history student, just someone who's interested in history.
Im glad someone brought this up. Like if Communism wasn't on the rise they wouldn't have given two shits about ending child labor or improving overa labor conditions. It was literally give the people a few extra bread crumbs and maybe they'll calm down
This was an Amazing documentary, thanks for the video!
It is us today, It will be you tomorrow
-Haile Selassie
Great Video!
"Last independent african nation of Ethiopia".
Liberia: "Excuse me?"
Excellent video 📹
League of Nations was a first step. A trial Without it there there wouldn't be any UN
Many Italians decided to stay in Ethiopia after the war. Most stayed there until communists took over Ethiopia in 1974.
Source: I have relatives who were born in Ethiopia who still can speak the language 55 years after leaving the country.
why did they stay in ethiopia? Its an amazing thing they survived especially the ethiopians were mad at the racist Italian colonists.
@@jmgonzales7701 Haile Sellase encouraged his subjects not to spoil the good name of Ethiopia by retaliating against Italians.
@@heruy8274 bruh bad move, kill them all or exile them or something.
@@jmgonzales7701 Italy did not colonise ethiopia, it only occupied it for 5 years.
@@taz09216 thats still colonization, or atleast attempted
An extremely relevant set of stories from the past - history is yet being written but my hope is the example of the betrayal of Ethiopia and the failure of nations to defeat aggression and/or appease dictatorships is not lost on the present. It may cost a great deal of lives and treasure, but far less to strangle a nascent tyranny bent on conquest than to ignore it and see it grow emboldened and threaten even more nations.
Suggestion for another video: How the world Betrayed Czechoslovakia 1938 and if you'll find it interesting, I think that alternative history The munich war could be very good scenario.Or the border clashes between Czech border guards/army vs SS and Sudetendeutche units.
when you talked about Ethiopia i knew instantly this has something to do with the new hoi4 dlc
History does rhyme. Heavily.
But at least we are trying to do better this time.
True, but Russia started this war in 2014 (8 years ago) from annexing of Crimea and installing puppet governments of so called "DPR" and "LPR". The 2022 invasion was simply the attempt to finish the job. How do you think, did world do enough to help us, Ukrainians? We surrendered 3-rd world's nuclrear arsenal for guarantees from USA, UK and russia (Budapest memorandum - total failure of a guarantee if you read it).
Even Civilized countries, like USA and UE block refused to sell us arms. And now russia threatens us and West with nuclear war.
Many electronics in russia's war tech in 2022's was of France, Germany and other countries regardless of the ban of selling weapons to aggressive russia, altough we don't really know how it happend, but there are some suspitions.
In 2008, after russia started a war against small country of Georgia USA interwened and saved Georgia, but with cost of Northern Osetia which is still in russia's grip.
So, how do you think, did civilized world did enough?
Mix I would say.
We are neither better nor worse. Try as we might. We always end up doing good or bad
@@lordoblivion8038 Agree, we can't say that world didn't do anything, particularly USA, UK and EU bloc. Ok, USA helped in lowering oil&gas prices, which, concidering 50% of russian budget consists of, was a significant blow to russia, but when oil prices returned - they started a bigger war, this time officially.
Also USA donated 300mil.dollars annually of important but insignificant military tech, which is a small sum for USA and whole other world
This was the best video you’ve made. If you ever disappear I know it’s because they’ve killed you 😅
the invasion of bulgaria was an incident which was ironic because it started by a dog crossing the border and his master a major tried to found him and he go shot by bulgarian troops and that sparked the invasion the involvent of the un was mostly symbolic because both sides knew what was all about
Sounds like by turning a blind eye to Italy the League of Nations unintentionally set the course for WWll. M.Night Shaymalan would not see that twist
@Kings and Generals
6:11 "It failed in stopping the genocides conducted by the Greeks and Turks against each other". "Atrocities" is not the same as genocide. Can you please provide your (contemporary) sources for Greeks conducting genocide against Turks? You have started adopting quite a few "odd" claims recently...
Nice timing.
Ethiopia leant to not be dependent upon other's military assistance.
The north of Ethiopia is being invaded right now by eritrean troops that are helping one side in the civil war, you know?
@@dayros2023 I know, eritrea is helping the majority of the ethiopian population by this, and revenging from those who harmed them alot 3 decades ago
@@dayros2023 Tigrayans are being suppressed by mafia warlordship. That issue could have been resolved almost 1.5 years ago if the Ethiopian government had decided to deal harshly with those thugs in Tigray.
TPLF lost a lot of oxygen, but as long as there is oxygen. It continously remains a problem.
@@Omer1996E.C But in any case there is a foreign army on ethiopian soil right now. I doubt that the eritreans are shedding blood just to be friends with the ethiopian government, you can bet that they will get a piece of ethiopia in exchange.
Greetings to our Ethiopian and Horn of Africa brothers from Yemen. You fought off colonialism and fascism with unprecedented bravery against all odds.
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Ironic how the main members of the league created most of the problems they didn't solve. It was all a facade. They only cared about power.
Hearing both the successes n failures of the League of Nations in equal measure is interesting. I'm sure it would've had far less failures if the US had become a part of it. Oh well. Great video.
Wilson never should have proposed the League of Nations, especially without the approval of the US first. The US didn't want to get involved in the world's problems and knowing history now. It was a good choice then and should have stuck to that policy.
@@Joker-no1uh---Or American joining the league would've been more effective in stopping the aggression of Germany, Japan, n Italy.
Thanks for the video
Great video and great timing! (for both the Dlc release and the far right victory at the Italian elections.) As an Italian, I really don't understand how so many people in my country still look up to Mussolini. This video alone presents all reasons why that regime was rotten to the core and was our darkest period in history.
Do you learn about your own country in video game advertisment vids?
Era il nostro periodo più buio, fino ad ora
@@direpenguin712 Don't need to, this video just reported facts that you can find in any real history book about this period. Including my high school history book.
@@francescosantambrogio6421 Indeed the majority of yt "history" channels like this one are simplistic high school level science to brainwash the masses.
K&G coming with a reminder to what recent events can lead to
6':16" Dear Kings and Generals.
Where exactly was there a genocide of Turks caused by Greeks in the Greko-Turkish war ?
Sadly it isn't only Ethiopia. (Referring both in past and present.)
True... also should do one on how the world betrayed Poland too
I wonder if this topic was choseb with any current conflict, and the UN's reaction to it in mind
I like this HoI4 style for the videos, it's pretty neat