The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (1935-36)
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- At five am on the 3rd of October 1935 Italian forces crossed into Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia, signalling the start of the Second Italian-Abyssinian War.
The war’s outcome would not only change the face of Africa but the political rifts it caused between the fascist nations and the democratic nations would contribute to the beginning of the most devastating conflict the human race has ever known, the Second World War.
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League of Nations: you can’t invade Abyssinia thats illegal!
Italy: Oh no! Anyway
Abyssinia: Help us! There using poison gas!
League of Nations: Italy, poison gas has been outlawed. You have to stop that right now.
Italy: *NO!*
League of Nations: Sorry, Abyssinia. We did everything we could.
BAHAAHHAAHAH
Wow look like 🇺🇳
@@marcobelli6856like Father like son
Similar to Israel Palestine today, weak words
Italy: *invades Ethiopia*
Britain and France: "You weren't suppose to do that!"
Also Britain and France: *has 3/4 of Africa*
US: Completely subdues Italy on June 4, 1944
Funny, sad and true at the same time
Sam Evans Britain*
LOL!!!
Sam Evans I love the way Americans always take full credit for the war
Italy: is making an empire
Britain with 3M colonies: how dare you
Overexaggerated.
As every meme is, my friend.
@@cxarhomell5867 your mom is overexaggerated
The British empire is very big tho..
Ye
When you realize that the Italians could've simply dropped the Atomic Meatball and ended the war.
Whare's ya moustache
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Mamma miiia indeeed.. dang the italians blew chunks! Isub2u coolname.
The fact that he saw himself as Emperor Julius.. how did the Italians not see through his insanity. Dangit Italy.. be more cool and less lame..
You mean the The Atomic Pizza Cutter 😆😆😆😆😆😆😂🤣🤣
A spicy one at that
"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?
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@@AyazDeniz1 really even here mate
@@VergilDarkslayer could be everywhere 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷😘
@@AyazDeniz1 well.in that case🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷take some orthodox with yah😘😘
Persian, Ottoman or Italian?
(Probably Italian)
7:18 "Marshall Badoglio who had demonstrated his willingness to use brutal force in Libya."
Fitting that he was named Badoglio and not Goodoglio.
Beatiful joke !
Yep.
Thats a very badoglio joke my friend
@@baandroidarg2006: Really? I thought it was pretty goodoglio.
HAHAHAHA!
Italy : conquers Abyssinia
Italy 5 years later takes Albania
Greece: I am about to end this mans whole career
I bet if Yugo and Swiss(I know it's impossible for Swiss but ok) invaded Italy in that time Italy would lose at the start 😂
@@strongking2809 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was actually invaded and then defeated by Italy and other Axis forces in WW2.
@@alpinefolkman Ofc when Germany helped
@@strongking2809 Er...when Italy helped you mean, it was a joint invasion made by multiple Axis forces, not an 1vs1 war with some expeditionary forces of Germany's allies.
@@alpinefolkman I know idiot Germany, Italy, Hungaria, Bulgaria and in some small forces of Romania invaded them, but what I wanted to say is if Italy was on it's own against Yugoslavia they couldn't win...
Wow, those drawings and animations are getting really great, im twenty seconds in and its better than ever
Eh it's still has and needs work. Still too much repetitiveness
@venolega 2 Nah man I don't think so. They really are that good
They are amazing I love them
They are pretty good
@venolega 2 just because you cant draw them?
LoN: YOU USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS. THAT S A WAR CRIMW
Italy: But i used it on africans...
LoN:Oh...well keep on then
LoN : Nvm then
Hitler : And if somebody used gas on Europeans ?
LoN : That's a big no no Hitler
Hitler : I mean people from Slavic states
LoN : Seems funny , try it on Communist
Racist
Saadan Saeed Africa is a continent,Africans are Africa's villagers,settlers and people who live there.
So go back to school to get proper education you degenerate
@Kekistan Shitlord *1943
@Kekistan Shitlord amazing, every thing you wrote is incorrect
"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
"Evil triumphs, and their actions flourish, because good people do nothing"
(~can't recall the sauce)
@@rookiedetective569 If they were good, they would not be silent, they are just demons who pretend to be neutral
LoN: Hey you stop doing that
Italy: No
LoN: Well okay
Abyssinia: *exists*
Italy: Do you want to explode?!
@@davidduran1910 2016
Businessman: *rebuilds trade center*
Me: Do you want [me to die]?
Paulfuss Entertainment *Usa has joined the chat*
Jesus of Suburbia
It’s actually 1947-1991
Abyssinia: *exists*
Italy: Do you want to explode?!
Abyssinia: *kicks in d groin*
Italy: Mussolini!?!
@@itsjustmint5211 I just need something simple
Italy:”BACK TO WWI I GO!”
France and Britain: “cool, just ally with us.”
Italy; “No I don’t think I will”
Literally back to ww1 since the military never upgraded
That would have been so much better
@@wpkepkw3330 it did but did evolve past the interwar they were fighting ready for anothet ww1 and not for ww2
reddit
The last time italy was allied with France and Britain was stabbed in the back by French and British.
Nobody:
Italy in 1935: I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move
Wtf? War isn't a game you idiot
@@luxembourgishempire2826 r/woosh
@@snug-fibbage7441 That's kinda dead now.
@@luxembourgishempire2826 that's what we call a pro gamer move
Luxembourgish Empire Luxembourg doesn’t even have an empire
My hats off to the people of Ethiopia who refused to let their homes be taken silently
by ravioli
Because other peoples all around the world just let themselves be conquered
The same tha accepted to have slavery in their society (italians actually ended slavery in abissinia)
@@Antonio-12345 Ethiopian emperors had been heavily sanctioning the practice since the 1850s but it was nit possible to ban it because most surrounding nations still did. Also Mussolini’s ban did not actually stop slavery as the rebels still controlled vast swathes of territory and some just ignored Italian (it did free a lot of people jn urban areas where colonists were)
It was only in 1942 that haile selassie actually abolished the practice
@@perhaps1094 still its not an excuse for them to have it. About the surrounding nations, im not very infromed but i dont think uk and france permitted slavery.
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
They recieve help from the germans and they also had russian material back from the first italian-abyssinian war.
Kulak Remover Nazis helped Ethiopian against their facist allies?
@@ambessashield9360 The italians were enemies of the nazis at the time.
Jonte Ded ...and in diplomacy countries play on different tables; Germany was supporting Italy while selling weapons and advisors to Ethiopians; Britain and France were trying to disagree with Italy while leaving her hands free for having her support in European affairs....and at the same time earning money on selling weapons to Ethiopians.
@@ambessashield9360: The Nazis also helped the Chinese for a while.
“It was us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
- Haile Selassie
Why do you quote a guy that hated your people??
@@princegaraad7308 lol
PrinceGaraad It wouldn’t mean any more or less if I quoted Hitler. It is a piece of history, and an eerily foreshadowing message at that.
Is that supposed to be a threat buddy?
@@abdim6566 It will be weird if you quoted Hitler as a jew. And that's the same as you quoting salasie.
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.
(from France) concerning France it has to be said that Mussolini had received a kind of an agreement from Laval, during the Jan. 35 trip to Roma of the latter...
Wait, wait,wait... Etiopia defeated Italy at the end of the 19th century!!?
LOL
**aggressive Italian hand gestures**
The Americans lost to the Paiwans and the British nearly lost to the Zulus... so what's the point?
Yes, making Ethiopia one of few countries to never be colonised. It wasn’t due to luck.
@@ambessashield9360 But..the video talks about Italy invading Ethiopia, that's close enough for me,that leave just one small African country on the west cost I forgot its name as the only African country to not be colonized.
elia haj Liberia. It was “colonized” by Afro-Americans who wanted to go back to Africa.
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.
Nations aside, many war criminals avoided punishment in exchange for their expertise in America and the Soviet Union. Like unit 731 (live experimentation, chemical attacks on civilians) and Rocket scientists who used slaves and built wholly inaccurate missiles with no purpose with the exception of spreading terror and maximising civilian death.
Everyone say that we are useless and than they ask us help..... amazing
@@simonetarga9908 One useless non-communist is better than a useless communist. Also Italy is literally at the center of the Mediterranean, making it a pretty strategic point for the future NATO to have. In fact, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, in return for the Soviet Union withdrawing nukes from Cuba, the United States withdrew Jupiter ballistic missiles from Turkey and Italy. Kinda shows how strategic Italy was in the Cold War.
Mussolini and many italian fascists were executed by the italian partisans
Wait a second...
Italian : It's not a chemical weapon, it's just some spicy green air
It's not an invasion, it's a surprise visit
I mean I'm pretty sure it was mustard gas... AKA not green.
Just the aroma of spicy mustard infused spaget gas
EA sorry I meant Italy: Well we call it a surprise poison.
it is flying pesto
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
That's some serious rules lawyering
@robel sisay Most of Ethiopia was occupied, there is no point in denying it
Congolese force public win misioloni in Gambella,Saio,Asosa(éthiopia)menu peoples forgot this part story
@@joninator7858 Occupying a country does not= colonization. Otherwise we would say France was colonized by Germans during WWII
@@julieherz8909 I never said it did
Americans : YoU cAn'T uSe cHeMiCal wEaPoNs
Also Americans: So Long Gay Hiroshima
Agent Orange over Vietnam intensifies
Pretty sure nuclear weapons aren't chemical weapons and Japan committed tons of war crimes and the atom bomb was one of the ways to make Japan surrender
@@Gus-oc6ie it was to much for japan later year japan calm down later america used weapon nuclear bomb as toy threatening many country it was to far
@@redbanner2523 what in God's name are you trying to say?
@@Gus-oc6ie yEs mY fElLoW aMerIcAn bOmBs aRe gOoD iF tHeY sPrEaD dEmOcRaCy!1!1 hey Atomic bombs and the British colonialism were most dangerous than "chemical weapons" , also killing people in Palestine
Italy might have been ineffective in fighting the allies
But let’s remember how Italy showed how the League of Nations is a failure
@BlackDeathViral03 so true
Yep
just like the UN
Doing Random Stuff
Well they actually intervene on some conflicts
Like Korean War
@@SomeGuy-lr7ms because of the cold war, there have been tens of wars since the creation of the UN, and it was useless
I just love how he was talking about some serious then just whipped out merch to sell right after
*Do u want to wear cool clothes?*
@@rachard bold of you to assume I'm not already wearing cool clothes
@@SkeletorCa nah bruh. Its all about that NAKED BOOTY
@@kepeep5066 that's what I was talking about
@@SkeletorCa no
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.
My school hasn’t used this channel, I’m so jelly
Lucky bro💀
As long as it aint a PragerU video...
@@hectorleon465 PragerU isn't even history, they're fraudulent and full of bullsh*t.
@@justalpha9138 exactly it's dangerous to use those and try to burn em into the mind of young adults that barely know what's going on in the world... it's even more unsettling when you have someone like will whit willing to bastardize the minds of children with "story time with will" it's disturbing in everyway...
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*
Bro it was gajillions killed
Well the 'switch team' tactic affected them personally, if Italy hadn't switched they'd be hailed heroes with no consequence. Go figure
Btw Nice to see ppl still believe Italy Switched sides in both world wars.
Spoiler alert: in the First they didn't.
In the second, the government was overthrown (Mussolini banisged on the Mountain called Gran Sasso and then, After his return, killed in front of the italian rebels BY the rebels) altought i Guess you could make the argument the new "GOVERMENT" still was Italy so technically they did switch sides? Idk, i Guess that's half right.
First was two generals at use gas , One was Badoglio the traitor the second graziani not so peaceful
Second they use illegal weapons
@@Drebolaskan What do you mean?
After WWII Italy had miracle ecomic growth.
It this not a win for italians?
Fascist lost,but Italians have they won?
The Ethiopians actually had modern weapons and equipment supplied by the British since ww1
Only a few carried modern fire arms as the video showed.
@@Jjjuserjjj look at the bottom of the description before making stuff up
@@Jjjuserjjj the sources are in the last link in the videos description.
Even if they did I'm sure it wasnt enough. Probably old and outdated rifles, no armor or atillery or anything useful agaonst a modern army at that time. Even the Italian one.
@@whispofwords2590 They had modern equipment, and the Italian rifles were from ww1 and equally just as outdated if not they were at least little more advance just by 5 or 10 years
Can you make a history about Philippine-American war.
RANDY RUDILA Yes
Agree.
Yes pls!
That will be embarrassing to watch because Americans won without using more force just waiting for the Filipino leaders to betray each other
Sign me in
Damn I Love this Channel!
Abyssinia: NOo you cant use chemical weapons
Italians: Haha gas go whoosh
So hilarious wow so funny making fun of thousands being massacred hahaha
@@doop2794 Le problem?
When you use expanding bullets, mutilating and savagely killing prisoners and civilians it's the least you deserve
Invading Abyssinia with my pal @Luigi 👌🍝🇮🇹
*ahem*
MAMMA MIA
How's it feel to get taken out of ranked?
Turn up
Yip
Please do invasion of Crete (Greece vs Fallsrimjager) ww2
That would be pretty good.
Do you mean Fallschirmjäger I know it's hard to write
Grudolf Hitler ahh German a language with huge words, well, not compared to welsh words I guess
@@notasoviet1016 Donaudampfschiffahrtskapitänsmützenettiketierungsgerätherstellungsfirmengesetz? Welsh got nothing on german brah xD
Fallschirmjäger
Italy: Go ahead, address the League of Nations. What are they gonna do, un invade you?
Haile Selassie: I demand you do something about Italy invading Abyssinia.
League of Nations: Haile unlikely. 😀
italy: look at this a fine display of a wide front conquest against an entire nation!
Germany: well done
*annexes europe in the background*
Italy:Guys i have a idea
*Italy has left the game*
Old joke
@@shieldde6209 yeah but a decent one
@@BeanMachine360 more like *Italy has switched teams*
@@memelover6917 Italy never actually switched teams, it just fought on both sides after 1943
@@shieldde6209 But in this context, it's a bit funny again
:| "we need to invade Abyssinia!"
? "why?"
:|
>:|
They...... HATE PASTA!!!
Haha NPC lmao
Italy: because Germany seems to be doing great right now so why can't we
Zachary Rollick actually I’m one of them Ethiopia has the best pasta in the world outside of Italy. It’s a fact
Because of hundreds of attacks by ethiopian troops like Ual Ual
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
What a mistake that was as those freed slaves will be suffering from poverty and exploitation by foreign corporatists instead
They weren't exactly mustard gassing them were they though, or keeping slaves, or mass liquidating them for resistance from small groups within the population, learn context man
@@---675 obtained hundreds ago... through violence colonialism wasn't a choice for the Africans.
Slavery was rampant in Ethiopia, really? lol you forgot about the Roman Empire, slavery was rampant. They had the highest proportion of slave population.
NYCITY3 m8 Italy=/=Rome
Italy before the gas on the war: troops, tanks, cannons, guns, trucks, bombs, planes
Abyssinia: muskets and spears, gg ez
Like any other colonization attempted by other colonial powers
@@thecommentaryking
Actually, the only ones that used chemical weapon against civilians in the whole human history have been:
-Saddam Hussein, on Mosul, 1995
-Hafez El Assad, on Homs, 1988
-Mussolini via Badoglio and Graziani, on dozens of cities and villages in Ethiopia (1935-36) and Lybia (1930-32)
Bombers, chemicals, tank against musquets.
It's the glory of cowards
@@nicolacormio8834 My point was about the use of more technologically advanced weapons against a weaker opponent. The British didn't use shields and spears to conquer their colonies in Africa, they used horses, rifles and cannons.
Also chemical weapons were used in more occasions that just those you mentioned.
Spanish and French militaries used chemical weapons against civilians during the rif war.
Syrian troops used chemical weapons against civilian targets during the recent Syrian Civil War.
Japan made extensive use of chemical weapons against both military and civilians in China.
The USA used chemical weapons (Agent Orange) indiscriminately in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, often hitting civillians.
Saddam before the date you mention used chemical weapons in 1988 against his own civilians in Halabja.
Even during WW1 the chemical weapons deployed caused casualties on the civilian populations of cities and villages near the frontlines.
And we should not forget about the countless of times chemical and bacteriological weapons were used in the past, especially during sieges.
The glory of cowards is mutilating civilians and prisioners for the fun of it, a standard practice in East Africa at the time, commonly employed by Ethiopians
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.
Engelbert Dollfuß Yeah And look what Africans are doing to the UK now fucking everything up and muslims getting blamed because of some backwards African nation who are cursed not too move forward there selves
Good for Ethiopia that Italians never used their ultimate ability...
Switching sides
Actually Italy never switched side
@@IcedZar WW1
@@Weppsu in ww1 they never entered in the war allied to central powers
@@IcedZar And? They were still allied with Germany and Austria Hungary when they declared war on them. Just because they weren't in any wars doesn't mean they didn't switch sides.
@@Weppsu actually, after the beginning of ww1 Italy left the alliance and asked Austria for trento and Trieste in exchange of neutrality
Great video
Nice 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?
Underated
Matthew Lee the difficulty probably came mostly from the terrain
They Literally conquered the nation in 6 months (Which is pretty fast for a nation the size of Ethiopia) and contrary to the video most of the gas attacks were reported by the Ethiopians and the league of nations not exactly sources without bias towards Italy, and they're were very few gas attacks most of them being used on supply lines and to secure flanks from being fully assaulted
Also Don't forget it took France 45 years to colonize Algeria and like 30 years for the Belgians to colonize the Congo If I remember correctly.
Rudolf Goldenbaum sure good for them they were 44 1/2 years faster than France in subduing a territory which they had no right in claiming for themselves.
I really hope that some of the comments don't start justifying the invasion...
The Roman Empire is like a lion
Mussolini’s fascist Italy is a house cat
I mean technically the Roman Empire encompassed thousands of miles and had a population in the hundreds of millions while Mussolini is just one person... What do you expect?
Before Anyone R/Woooosh's me it's a joke as well.
@@monsieurc9154 lmao Roman fanboy
@@monsieurc9154 not really kiddo
@@erwinrommel6561 Shut up barbarian.
@@monsieurc9154 What about the omayyad empire
I just want to thank you Simple History guys because you made me look really smart today in my US History college course.
Very well made
Mussolini? A modern Julius Ceaser?
Ehhh... lets not crush little Mussolini’s dreams just yet
just wait until his great-grandson gets to power.
edit: i meant for great-grandson not grandson lol
Muh Roman empire argument is the quite dummy. The kingdom Italy is trying since the 19th century to have a colonial empire because of increasing population and lack of resources, so, it's a poor young nation fighting against an other poor for resources...
ChatNoir13th And because after the Roman Empire a lot of Nations rules over us and some *cough Spain cough* paid little to no attention about modernizing some of the Southern parts which were very rich at the time.
Ur prof pic had me awww
Xx_Dank_Lord_xX gr Thanks
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
Lmao
Fake news
@ItalianOfficialGamer The Uberslave
@ItalianOfficialGamer Too late, Eritreans beat y'all to it 😜
Reading this gave me autism
Que buen vídeo!
Not gonna these videos are super interesting and good looking
Good job simple history
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
Italy:....... *that wasn't me*
Italy: um... Because we're *SeAsOnInG iT*
Italy: oh thats just the oregano
Third world countries didn't exist at that point either
They're lucky Italy didn't go all out spaghet on them
We had the rain gods on our side
Spaghetti,not spaghet
-Andrewswhile _ It’s spaghet, it’s a meme
God/神VorteX ツ Yes it is
😂😂
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
Do WWII battles fought by the Chinese and Japanese.
Philipene American war instead
😐🔫
Battle of Nanking or Wuhan would be great.
Amazingly informative as usual!
Abyssinia: Help us!
League of Nations: No, I don't think I will.
We never asked for help chump
My childhood is fill with flow song.... Thank you for all your determination that make you as a band that well known today
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
well the 1929 crisis actually had impact on italy too, maybe a less hard impact but it had one
Germans controlled & colonised the whole of Europe from 1939 to 1945. The Germans united Europe, cleaned up crime & brought discipline to the Europeans. Italians occupied Ethiopia for a shorter duration. The Europeans only got independence because the Brits, Russians & Yanks helped them.
@@italiangarbageposting it mainly benefited italy tbf
This is equivalent as a college student going to fight a 1st grade class, and losing
And barely beating the first grader
oh yeah tell me how they lost please
i think they mean the first invasion not the second
@Alexov Brusilov it's losing, not loosing
*Almost losing, until they pull out a glock to pump the tike full with lead
Good editing
1:05
I love that little pause as if the narrator is explaining the insanity of Mussolini’s delusions to someone at the time
Mussolini:
"Is there any nation who use Bows and Arrows we can actually invade?"
Abyssinia:
**Exist**
Mussolini:
*"It's free Real estate"*
Imagine believing Ethiopians used bows and arrows. The absolute state of history knowledge of America.
man i have seen you everywhere in comment section also why do you think he is American
@Britannic hayyomatt Exactly, even in the first Ethiopian War at the Battle of Adua (one and only battle of that war) they vastly outnumbered Italians with artillery and smaller firearms.
@@AmaF97 i feel secondhand embarrassment when i look at your profile pic and name
@@manny90963 Godwin's Law declined to anime pfp, boom, your point is null, you lost your argument even before starting. Congrats on playing yourself and stay mad.
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.
Italy was unprepared for the war and needed some time to update to modern equipment.
The person ethiopian that got killed was my grandfather cousin
@Addy Levi you made me laugh😅
Crazy
@Addy Levi what
Wow, Abyssinia was more organized than I thought. I believed it was just some tribes that didn’t even have a leader.
*The more you know...*
Unsurprisingly, not many people are educated about Africa in general
Haile Selassie claimed decent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, so Ethiopia was ruled by the same family for almost 3000 years.
And im sure you believe the dane thing about the rest of Africa.
Bigman88 George Except for Egypt, I actually did.
I learn more history by one episode then history at school in a month
hey simple history i really appreciate the content and the level of research you all go for for each video! keep em rollin
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".
*Además, el emperador mandó a su hijo a estudiar a la universidad de México.*
Wasnt that the anschluss
who were the other four nations?
Mexico was also the only nation to condemn Germany’s annexation of Austria
Viva México
Rarara
You are the best cool video
Simplehistory do you think you can make a video regarding the Polish Soviet war 1919-1920? That be awesome. :)
Italo Turkish War (1911-1912)
No one cares
@@sovietboi1745 you do deep down
@@sovietboi1745 the first war to use Airforce and Cars ever? No one cares?
@soviet boi this war was actually important it was the reason why the first balkain war began
Soviet Boi Italo Turkish war it’s actually pretty important. First of all it was the first the war where armored cars and planes: some pilot just drop some bombs from his plane and airship were used too, secondly the war showed the weakness of the Ottoman Empire and triggered the events of the Balkan war,
The comments are
0% about this video
20%asking for more videos
80%about puns and jokes
One and Only Gaming I know just people trying to get likes
80%:: Man that's fucked up....... time to make a funny for dem likes
Wow man you're incredibly original. dude there's no problem with making some harmless jokes. you're not cool because your not going with the flow. like bruh do you want a trophy or somethin. Congrats.
Just the thing is this is history,people died in this,and people come out doing puns and jokes
@@mr.asdasd2345 never expected a shitposter of all things to be this salty
I’m 12 years old and I love your vids it helps me in school bc I learn a lot about war history
Hey I watched this on my own, but now I watch it for class . t has all come full circle for me.
mussalioni: haha ethiopia is gonna lose!
hoi4 memer: im abouta end this mans whole carrer
you got a problem with grammar?
007FRA NB aww man
so way back in the mine
Got are pickaxe swinging from side to side
Side side to side
Wow these videos have gotten great! Keep it up!🙂
1890s italy 1st try: It was an accident.
1935 Italy: 👁👄👁
Thank you
Can you do a video about the Malayan "Emergency"? 1948-1960
aka Britain's Vietnam
theres not too much to say...
for me at least. its basically a communism regime starting in malaya and how UK dealt with it
First use of Agent orange
Ehhhh would you call that Britain’s Vietnam? The UK and Commonwealth pretty clearly won strategically, militarily and politically.
Would still like to see a video on it though.
Kingdom of Italy 17. March 1861 - 2. June 1946 🇮🇹
Rip in pepperoni
Who needs a kingdom when you can have a Social Republic
@@mankn9098 Noo democracy is not good friend
@@MMatea1776 What democracy, the Italian Social Republic was a Fascist State created by the Duce once the traitor king backstabbed Italy and the Fascist cause.
@@Hunkie904 you know where you can put them PEPPERS
(however it is said with only one L)
Good vidio
It’s good that you show the horrible things that happened in that horrible and unfortunately forget war
This is one of the most brutal invasions I've ever heard about
are you serious????
As an Ethiopian, Are you actually serious?
Not Even Close
Even with all their “might” it took Italy gassing and killing innocent villagers to defeat Ethiopia...
No. Ethiopia was also conquered will the aid of Ethiopian collaborators like Ras Sejum Mangascià, Ras Ghetacciù Abaté and Ras Kebbedé Guebret. Also, let's not forget Haile Selassie's brutal genocide against minority tribes within his kingdom and the neglect he showed for Ethiopians during the famine of the 1970's resulting in the deaths of thousands while Selassie lived a luxurious existence.
Ethiopians had better guns
@@SD-qw4xx So you are saying that the italians chemical warfare tactic was a major reason they weren't successful in occupation?
@@dillonblair6491 in the 1890s it was just plain stupidity,only 30 years since the independence war in Italy and the politicians decided that was a great idea sending 20k troops against 240k ethiopian troops(that had russian weapons),whereas the socalled chemical weapons were mostly mustard gas
@@dillonblair6491 yeah sure,it's clear that you're just a kid that did 0 research
It's almost as if the league had done their jobs we could have avoided a lot. Maybe.
King Waffi it’s not about racism they were trying to get Italy on there side
Aiden.Viceroy
Well that clearly didn't work.
God bless 🙌 🙏 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 my land
Mine too
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
It's so important to know about the lesser known wars! I didn't even know this invasion happened!
We Ethiopians don’t celebrate independence, we celebrate victory ! Ethiopia forever and always 🇪🇹💚💛❤️
A similar situation I. Greece we celebrate deceleration of war with Italy and indipendense
Ethiopians got destroyed by Italy.
C. C. A. Ethiopia was never colonized. Neither by Italy nor any other country. Google ADWA WAR: when the Italians first invaded the country, they lost (even though they had much better and more weapons than Ethiopia etc.) the second time they occupied parts of Ethiopia but they never managed to occupy Ethiopia as a whole so they never colonized Ethiopia. Ethiopia celebrates the victory over Italy (Adwa Day) . You need to get your facts right mate
Jimmy Dolo destroyed by Italy? How did Italy destroy Ethiopia but never even managed to colonize the country? That doesn’t even make sense man. Ethiopia won over Italy (Adwa war) and the second time Italy occupied parts of Ethiopia. Italy did a lot of harm, but they never destroyed Ethiopia. Ethiopia defeated a whole European power. Ethiopia doesn’t need to celebrate independence as the rest of the world,we celebrate victory 😉
C. C. A. “Despite the technically superior, modern weapons of the Italian army, the Ethiopians in 1896, under Emperor Menelik II, repelled the Italian invaders (Battle of Adua)“ - people are not weapons. Of course Italy had better and more weapons than Ethiopia and Ethiopia had more soldiers since Italians came to Ethiopia and not the other way around!
Anyways my originally comment was related to the Adua War which the Ethiopia won . That’s why we celebrate victory, because if the Italians have won that day we would be celebrating independence . What happened afterwards was the second invasion of the Italians and eventually the occupation of parts of Ethiopia where the British helped Ethiopia . But Ethiopia’s victory is Ethiopia’s victory, not the British. The Italians plan was to colonize Ethiopia which they never did. That’s why we celebrate Adwa Day every year on March 1st to thank our greatest grandparents for protecting not only our country but our people
ኢትዮጵያ ለዘላለም ትኑር 💚💛❤️
I like to call this: “The Italian Version of Vietnam”.
Kinda
they win tho unlike the americans
Depends on if you count the roman empire as Italy
Zulu: We defeated an European army
Abbyssinia: Hold my beer
Cough Rokers drif cough cough
Mr magic man there was a bit of technical difficulty
Mr magic man they are talking about Islandwana where the Zulus won
Mussolini: "Isn't there a not yet colonized nation somewhere which is so undeveloped that the People would be defending themselves against our tanks with literal bows and arrows and wooden spears?"
*Looks at Abyssinia*
Mussolini: "Oh there is? Fantastic!"
*And so he took it.*
th-cam.com/video/_uk_6vfqwTA/w-d-xo.html and go to 7:18.
"He tried to invade British Somalia , and that went pretty well , then he tried ti invade Egypt and that went less well , then he tried ti invade Greece and that went really bad"l
I know that this part Is on the second part , but since we are talking about Mussolini . YOLO
Italy tries to invade Africa, this angered the British who punished them severely.
Fun fact: the germans actually send a few thousands rifles to the ehtiopians during the Conflict because they were angry with the italians.
They weren’t angry, they just didn’t wanted to risk Italy winning to fast and join Allies
Millenarian enemies
The British seized them
Well in Hitlers race pyramid Mediterranean people weren’t high up there sooo
" we have lost all objectives"
Italia: oh crap
*switch side*
Boring joke
Lets just ignore the fact they have been invaded
Victor Martins Menezes And let’s ignore the fact that, after Italy’s surrender to the Allies, Germany started to attack Italians. You should study more history
Yeah yeah and Braveheart is a historical film
@Alfa&Omega 00000 And other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself
Maybe if the Italians farmed their generals in north Ethiopia they could’ve won ww2
yeah, they shoulda let the war go on for longer so they could get more army and air experience and build better divison templates and better aircraft variants
@@toffeeballs9690 don't forget going on extensive conscription
Ori Lustman it’s Italy... scraping the barrel...
@@ori8107 They should have saved political points to run a propaganda campaign for more war support.
Abyssinia: Help me, League of Nations, you’re my only hope!
LN: Mussolini if you don’t stop we will be forced to remove your Saturday minecraft hour.
Abyssinia: *wins against Italy in 1896*
Mussolini: *reverse uno card*
Can you make a video on the first Italo Ethiopian war?