Lenny gave us the assignment of answering questions about the Abyssian Crisis

Questions:

1. WHAT WAS THE ITALIAN EMPIRE LIKE BY 1930?
2. HOW DID SENATOR GIORGIO PISANO EXPLAIN ITALY’S ATTITUDE FOR CONQUEST?
3. WHAT IS ABYSSINIA TODAY? WHAT WAS THE SITUATION BY 1930?
4. WHAT EXCUSE DID MUSSOLINI HAVE TO CONQUER ABYSSINIA?
5. WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN IN ITALY’S INVASION?
6. WHAT EVIDENCE DOES MUSSOLINI’S DAUGHTER PROVIDE?
7. WHAT DID YOUNG SOLDIERS BELIEVE WAS THEIR DUTY TOWARDS ITALY?
8. WHAT WAS CONTROVERSIAL ABOUT THE USE OF POISON GAS BY THE ITALIANS?
9. WHAT DID THE LEAGUE DECIDE TO DO? HOW EFFECTIVE WERE THOSE MEASURES?
10. HOW DID ORDINARY PEOPLE REACTO TO SANCTIONS?

Answers:

1.  The Italian Empire was from what is now Italy and what is now Libya. Also they were looking foward to Ethiopia.
2.  The attitude that Giorgio Pisano had towards the conquest was that it was unfair for Italia not be allowed to invade Abyssinia, but Great Britain could conquer any country she wanted.
3.   In the 1930s, Abyssinia or Ethiopia was poor, undeveloped and it practiced slavery. In the present, Abyssinia is a independent country, known as the Republic of Ethiopia.
4.  Mussolini’s excuse to conquer Abyssinia was that he needed raw materials and land because of the fact that the population was incrising.
5.  Italy asked permission to invade Abyssinia to France and England. France accepted the request of the Italians but, Ingland remaind ambiguous.
6.  She provided that people didn’t even knew were Ethiopia was. Also she said that Britain won’t go to war with Italy.
7.   Soldiers parents and grandparents, unified Italy, so they thought that their duty was to make it great.
8.  Mussolini, seven years before he made a secret treaty improving the use of Poison Gas, had not only renounced to it, but it had also called it uncivilized.
9.  The League proposed sanctions as a punishment to Italy for invading Ethiopia. This only consolidated Italy’s support for war.
10. Ordinary people believed the sanctions were unfair and that they were an obstacle for Italy to recover.