The Breakdown of Traditional Security - Italy's Invasion and Conquest of Abyssinia - What was the impact of French and British Foreign Policy?
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What major factor in the breakdown of European Diplomatic relations after 1935 was caused by the Abyssinian Crisis?
Most importantly the breakdown of the Stresa Front and the way in which Mussolini was 'pushed' into the arms of Hitler; but also the implication that the League was shown to be ineffective (although there had been many examples of this previously)
What, according the French commentator Maurice Baumont, was the main attraction of Nazi Germany to Mussolini?
Unlike what one would expect, it wasn't so much ideology, but instead Mussolini "wanted to be on the side of power, the only decisive attraction for him"
What had Mussolini learnt from the lessons of 1935-37 (Britain and France's reaction to the Abyssinian Crisis and the Spanish Civil war)?
- France and Britain's policy of appeasement demonstrated to Mussolini that France and Britain had neither the will nor the means to halt the resurgence of Germany
- France and Britain seemed weak in comparison to Hitler; for example, in September 1937, Hitler had demonstrated German military strength when Mussolini visited Berlin
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