Why weren’t Germany and Italy as aggressive in overseas colonization compared to countries like Britain, France, Portugal and Spain?
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In addition to the comments already stated, in Italy’s case, they were, for lack of a better way to describe it, really bad at invading. It took them two wars to colonize Ethiopia, with the first one taking them nearly two years and they still lost. Ethiopia managed to keep their independence until 1935, and even then occupation only lasted almost as long as WWII before they got the boot as the war neared it’s end.
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