The second italo-abyssinian war was a large military conflict between Kingdom of Italy and Empire of Ethiopia, between 1935 and 1936. Under the fascist government, Italy pursued a revanchistic and imperialistic policy against Ethiopia, as payback for its defeat in the first italo-abyssinian war, which ultimately led to the outbreak of war. In regards to this war, various incidents and war crimes came to be. It was accompanied by intense international events, just as it also had long reaching consequences and we therefore count it as one of the factors, which set the stage for the second world war. This is shown especially in the events and processes in international relations which accompanied, determined and arose because of it. In the year 1936 Italy unilaterally declared victory, but it was exactly her entry into the second world war a few years later that brought about the downfall of its rule in the region, just as only the end of the second world war brought the official conciliation between the states.
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