I roto i te Oketopa 1935, tonoa Italian rangatira Benito Mussolini 400,000 hoia ki te whakaeke i Abyssinia (Ethiopia). arahina Marshal Pietro Badoglio te pakanga i Noema 1935, whakahau pātū, te whakamahi o te patu matū pērā i te hau mustard, me te kawa o te supply wai, ki ngā ūnga i ngā kainga undefended me ngā wāhi hauora. patua te ope Italian hou te Abyssinians rawakore patu, ka mau Addis Ababa i Mei 1936, akiaki Emperor o Etiopia Haile Selassie ki te rere. te League o Nations whakahe whakaekenga o Itari, me te whakatakoto ārai ohaoha i roto i te Whiringa-ā-nuku 1935, engari ko te ārai i tino kore whai hua mai kihai i whakakorehia e ratou te hoko o te hinu ranei kati te Canal Suez (whakahaerehia e Etiopia). i te Oketopa 1935, ka whakahaua e te Pirimia o Ingarangi, ko Stanley Baldwin, tenei i arahina i te pakanga i roto i te Whiringa-ā-ā-rangi 1935, i whakahau i te whakamahi o te
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