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35: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War Pt. 2 - Resolution

History of the Second World War

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The Royal Navy and the Rhineland Crisis

The League of Nations announced economic sanctions against Italy after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in October 1936. However, few nations could enforce them and enforcement would fall primarily on the British and Royal Navy. The two most important sanctions that could have been put in place were an oil embargo and a closure of the Suez Canal to Italian shipping. All of this kind of broke apart in 1936 during the Rhineland crisis when Britain's attention was pulled elsewhere.

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