Italy's colony in Somaliland provided the launching ground for Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia. France, alongside the United Kingdom, offered Italy concessions in August 1935 to try to head off war, and later proposed the secret Hoare-Laval Pact. Which international crisis is being described?

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Abyssinia Crisis. The Abyssinia Crisis of 1935-36 exposed the weakness of the League of Nations, which imposed only partial sanctions on Italy. Emperor Haile Selassie's exile speech to the League in Geneva became a landmark moment in the collapse of collective security before World War II.