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Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Part of the Interwar Period
Date5 December 1934
3 October 1935 – May 1936
Location
Result Decisive Italian victory
Territorial
changes
Annexation of Ethiopia by Italy
Foundation of Italian East Africa
Belligerents

 Italy

Ethiopian Empire Ethiopia

Material support:
Nazi Germany Germany[1]
Commanders and leaders
Italy Benito Mussolini
Italy Victor Emmanuel III
Italy Emilio De Bono
Italy Pietro Badoglio
Italy Rodolfo Graziani
Hamid Idris Awate
Olol Dinle
Ethiopian Empire Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian Empire Imru Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Empire Kassa Haile Darge
Ethiopian Empire Seyum Mangasha
Ethiopian Empire Mulugeta Yeggazu 
Ethiopian Empire Desta Damtew
Ethiopian Empire Nasibu Emmanual  (WIA)
Strength
Approx. 500,000 combatants (Approx. 100,000 mobilized)
Approx. 595 aircraft[2]
Approx. 795 tanks[2]
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)[3]
44,000 wounded (est. May 1936)[4]
9,555 killed2 (est. 1936–1940)[5]
144,000 sick and wounded (est. 1936–1940)[6]
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).[nb 1]
7% of Ethiopia's population killed in War Crimes against civilians or several hundreds of thousands[8]

1Official pro-Fascist Italian figures are around 3,000, which Alberto Sbacchi considers deflated.[3]

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."[5]
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference stapleton was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Barker 1971, p. 20.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire", p.36.
  5. ^ a b 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)
  8. ^ 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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