Didn't Ethiopia prove an economic money pit? They originally went in expecting it to pay for itself. What followed was anything but.Due to the political chaos of Italy after World War I (because of how they got so little from the peace treaties), its economy was thrown into turmoil. Mussolini's policies focused more on being self-sufficient. So Italy did not suffer nearly as much during the Great Depression, and the resulting progress made Italians have more faith in Mussolini.
Yeah, after the mid-thirties, Italy's economy started to falter a little. And it was during World War II when the economy was ruined.Didn't Ethiopia prove an economic money pit? They originally went in expecting it to pay for itself. What followed was anything but.
Due to the political chaos of Italy after World War I (because of how they got so little from the peace treaties), its economy was thrown into turmoil. Mussolini's policies focused more on being self-sufficient. So Italy did not suffer nearly as much during the Great Depression, and the resulting progress made Italians have more faith in Mussolini.
Valid point.Well, after little to no research at all, I found out that Mussolini doctrine of self reliance caused a lot of inflation because many of the consumer goods (including food) that the italian people needed had to be imported from the outside, and due the restrictions imposed by himself (and the embargos due the invasion of Abyssinia) those goods became rarer and the overral living standart fell
AFAIK the Italian involvement in the Spanish Civil War was as big a drain on money and foreign currency as the Ethiopian War was.Well, anyone have anything to add?