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{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict   = Second Italo-Ethiopian War
|partof     = the [[Interwar period|Interwar Period]]
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|caption    = Italian artillery in Tembien, Ethiopia, in 1936
|date       = 5 December 1934<br> 3 October 1935&nbsp;– May 1936
|place      = [[Ethiopia]]
|territory  = [[Annexation]] of Ethiopia by Italy<br>Foundation of [[Italian East Africa]]
|result     = Decisive Italian victory
|combatant1 = {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}}
*[[File:Eritrea COA.svg|13px]] [[Italian Eritrea]]
*[[File:Italian Somaliland COA.svg|13px]] [[Italian Somaliland]]
*[[Italian Libya]]
|combatant2 = {{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopia]]
'''Material support:'''<br>{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]<ref name= stapleton/>
|commander1 = {{flagicon|Italy|1861}} '''[[Benito Mussolini]]'''<br>{{flagicon|Italy|1861}} [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]]<br>{{flagicon|Italy|1861}} [[Emilio De Bono]]<br>{{flagicon|Italy|1861}} [[Pietro Badoglio]]<br>{{flagicon|Italy|1861}} [[Rodolfo Graziani]]<br>[[File:Eritrea COA.svg|13px]] [[Hamid Idris Awate]]<br>[[File:Italian Somaliland COA.svg|13px]] [[Olol Dinle]]
| commander2 = {{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} '''[[Haile Selassie I]]'''<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Imru Haile Selassie]]<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Kassa Haile Darge]]<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Seyum Mangasha]]<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Mulugeta Yeggazu]]{{KIA}}<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Desta Damtew]]<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopian Empire}} [[Nasibu Emmanual]] {{WIA}}
|strength1   = Approx. 500,000 combatants (Approx. 100,000 mobilized)<br>Approx. 595 aircraft{{sfn|Barker|1971|p=20}}<br>Approx. 795 tanks{{sfn|Barker|1971|p=20}}
|strength2   = {{circa|800,000}} combatants ({{circa|330,000}} mobilized)<br>13 aircraft<br>4 tanks and 7 armored cars
|casualties1 = 10,000 killed<sup>1</sup>  <small>(est. May 1936)</small><ref name="Sbacchi37">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.</ref><br />44,000 wounded <small>(est. May 1936)</small><ref>Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire", p.36.</ref><br />9,555 killed<sup>2</sup> <small>(est. 1936–1940)</small><ref name="Sbacchi43">Sbacchi, ''The Price of Empire'', p.43.</ref><br />144,000 sick and wounded <small>(est. 1936–1940)</small><ref>Sbacchi, ''The Price of Empire'', p.38.</ref><br /> '''Total:''' {{circa|208,000}} killed or wounded.
|casualties2 = {{circa|275,000}} combatants killed<br>{{circa|500,000}} wounded<br />'''Total:''' {{circa|775,000}} combatants and civilians killed or wounded (1935–1940).{{#tag:ref|Angelo Del Boca, The Ethiopian War 1935–1941 (1965), cites a 1945 memorandum from Ethiopia to the Conference of Prime Ministers, which tallies 760,300 natives dead; of them, battle deaths: 200,000, hunger among refugees: 300,000, patriots killed during occupation: 75,000, concentration camps: 35,000, Feb. 1937 massacre: 30,000, executions: 24,000, civilians killed by air force: 1,800.<ref>Angelo Del Boca, ''The Ethiopian War 1935–1941'' (1965)</ref> [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat3.htm Secondary Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century]|group=nb}}<br>7% of Ethiopia's population killed in War Crimes against civilians or several hundreds of thousands<ref name=Sullivan>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.</ref>
|notes = <sup>1</sup>Official pro-Fascist Italian figures are around 3,000, which Alberto Sbacchi considers deflated.<ref name="Sbacchi37" /><br />
<sup>2</sup>Based 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."<ref name="Sbacchi43" />
|campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Second Italo-Abyssinian War}}
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