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Fall of Addis Ababa (1936)
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5 May 1936 — Badoglio’s motorized column enters the capital; Mussolini proclaims empire from a balcony in Rome. In Geneva the exiled emperor warns: “It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
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- Italian invasion of Abyssinia (chapter 4 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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