In the 19C Italy joined “Scramble for
Africa”. Italy had unimportant areas like Eritrea and Somaliland. Italians
wanted to expand what they had by adding Abyssinia as one of their conquest.
However in 1896, the Abyssinians, in the battle of Adowa, defeated the Italians.
In the battle 6000 men were killed. Nonetheless this did not stop Italians to
make new plans and new attempts to take over Abyssinia. Mussolini got motivated
by the desire that Italy had, to show the world how powerful they could become.
Mussolini saw himself as a new and better version of Julius Cesar.
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