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Second Italo-Ethiopian War
	Part of the Interwar Period
Date	5 December 1934; 3 October 1935 – May 1936
Location	Ethiopia
Result	Decisive Italian victory
Territorial; changes	Annexation of Ethiopia by Italy; Foundation of Italian East Africa
Belligerents
Italy Italian Eritrea; Italian Somaliland; Italian Libya;	Ethiopia Material support:; Germany
Commanders and leaders
Benito Mussolini; Victor Emmanuel III; Emilio De Bono; Pietro Badoglio; Rodolfo Graziani; Hamid Idris Awate; Olol Dinle	Haile Selassie I; Imru Haile Selassie; Kassa Haile Darge; Seyum Mangasha; Mulugeta Yeggazu †; Desta Damtew; Nasibu Emmanual (WIA)
Strength
Approx. 500,000 combatants (Approx. 100,000 mobilized); Approx. 595 aircraft; Approx. 795 tanks	c. 800,000 combatants (c. 330,000 mobilized); 13 aircraft; 4 tanks and 7 armored cars
Casualties and losses
10,000 killed1 (est. May 1936); 44,000 wounded (est. May 1936); 9,555 killed2 (est. 1936–1940); 144,000 sick and wounded (est. 1936–1940); Total: c. 208,000 killed or wounded.	c. 275,000 combatants killed; c. 500,000 wounded; Total: c. 775,000 combatants and civilians killed or wounded (1935–1940).; 7% of Ethiopia's population killed in War Crimes against civilians or several hundreds of thousands
	1Official pro-Fascist Italian figures are around 3,000, which Alberto Sbacchi considers deflated.; 2Based on 1,911 killed in the first six months of 1940; Ministry of Africa figures for 6 May 1936 to 10 June 1940 state 8,284 men were killed, which Sbacchi considers "[f]airly accurate data."

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^ Cite error: The named reference stapleton was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Barker 1971, p. 20.
^ ^a ^b Alberto Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire: Towards an Enumeration of Italian Casualties in Ethiopia 1935–1940", in ed. Harold G. Marcus, Ethiopianist Notes, vol. II, No. 2, p.37.
^ Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire", p.36.
^ ^a ^b Sbacchi, The Price of Empire, p.43.
^ Sbacchi, The Price of Empire, p.38.
^ Angelo Del Boca, The Ethiopian War 1935–1941 (1965)
^ Sullivan, Barry "More than meets the eye: the Ethiopian War and the Origins of the Second World War" pages 178-203 from The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians, London: Routledge, 1999 page 188.

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[FOOTNOTEBarker197120-2] Barker 1971, p. 20.

[Sbacchi37-3] Alberto Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire: Towards an Enumeration of Italian Casualties in Ethiopia 1935–1940", in ed. Harold G. Marcus, Ethiopianist Notes, vol. II, No. 2, p.37.

[4] Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire", p.36.

[Sbacchi43-5] Sbacchi, The Price of Empire, p.43.

[6] Sbacchi, The Price of Empire, p.38.

[7] Angelo Del Boca, The Ethiopian War 1935–1941 (1965)

[Sullivan-9] Sullivan, Barry "More than meets the eye: the Ethiopian War and the Origins of the Second World War" pages 178-203 from The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians, London: Routledge, 1999 page 188.

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