About this episode:
An authoritarian ruler moves to invade a smaller country and take it for himself. People around the world rally to that country’s defense. European and American leaders grapple with how to stop the invasion and prevent a wider war. But this isn’t Russia and Ukraine in 2022. It’s Italy and Ethiopia in 1935. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore what we can learn from the very different choices made decades ago, when the world faced a similar challenge.
Related material:
Newsreel: Americans take sides on Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia
Slideshow: Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia resonates in the U.S.
Read: Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “When Harlem and Little Italy Clashed over Ethiopia”
Book: Our guest Deborah Cohen’s Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
Book: Our guest Susan Pedersen’s The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
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