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| 1935, Oct. 3 |
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| THE ITALIAN FORCES BEGAN THE INVASION OF ETHIOPIA. They took Adua on Oct. 6. | 1 |
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| Oct. 7 |
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| The LEAGUE COUNCIL DECLARED ITALY THE AGGRESSOR in the Ethiopian affair and began to arrange for sanctions. | 2 |
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| Nov. 18 |
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| The League of Nations voted the application of sanctions against Italy (prohibition of import of Italian goods, arms embargo, financial embargo, etc.). Italy thereupon ended all economic relations with the sanctionist powers and adopted a system of rigid control of food and raw materials to meet the emergency. | 3 |
| Italy weathered the sanctionist storm, the more so as the nations could not agree to apply the oil sanction (Feb. 1936), which might have proved decisive, but which might also have involved armed conflict. The reoccupation of the Rhineland by Germany (March 1936) diverted the attention of Britain and France and made all prospects of further action against Italy illusory. | 4 |
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