Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
The Abyssinia Crisis (Amharic: አቢሲኒያ ቀውስ, romanized: ābīsīnīya k’ewisi; Italian: La crisi abissina) was an international crisis in 1935 that originated in what was called the Walwal incident during the ongoing conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia (then commonly known as "Abyssinia"). Both Ethiopia and Italy pursued a policy of provocation against each other.
The League of Nations ruled against Italy and voted for economic sanctions,
but they were never fully applied. Italy ignored the sanctions, quit the League, made special deals with the United Kingdom and France and ultimately annexed and occupied Abyssinia after it had won the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The crisis is generally regarded as having discredited the league.