Abyssinia (Ethiopia) under attack by Italy. Emperor Haile Selassie (1891-1975) being toppled from his throne by an Italian tank. On 9 May 1936 Mussolini was able to announce that Italy had an empire. Italian propaganda postcard.

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Keywords: 1930s, 20th, agression, century, colonisation, imperialism, italy, symbol, thirties, war