ITALIAN 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Haile Selassie, Rodolfo Graziani, Victor Emmanuel Iii Of Italy
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1936: ethiopia (africa orientale italiana/ italian east africa); impero. Demographic" colonization (settler colonialism)- italian colonialism, they dreamed of finding gold and oil but never found it not talked about it. King victor emmanuel iii- weak emperor, doesn"t do much, only a title. Many fascist celebrations but they"re all about mussolini, not the. 1929 lateran accords between italy and the vatican: the pope is no longer a prisoner". Many executed and die of disease, italians are waging a war against the entire population, around 50,000 died. Umar al mukhtar, rebellion leader- he was part of the resistance, italians hanged him. He is still a symbol in libya, still a divided country lion of the desert . Wwi, first use of chemical weapons, everyone agrees not to do that again. Italians violate it again in ethiopia, vernacular mustard gases, gets sent to water tables, gets everywhere, everything dies, hell.
