War 1911-1912, the Great War, and the Italo-Abyssinian War, 1935-1936.
"Following their defeat in Ethiopia expansionist & imperialist sentiment was very quiet while Italy recovered in the wake of unrest that rocked most of the free world in the late 1890's and 1900's. Italy would play a major role nevertheless in the inter-state conflicts that preceded the Great War in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans, leading inevitably into buildup of nationalist sentiments that stoked the fires of a great conflict in 1914-1915.
The Italian desire for expansion in North Africa, a more natural region geographically speaking to conquer, or acquire diplomatically than Ethiopia would have been, led the Italians to seek war with Turkey ( and the Ottoman Empire) over control of Libya, known then by the regional states of Tripolitania, Fezzan, & Cyrenaica.
The Italians used gunboat diplomacy successfully where the German Empire had failed in the Moroccan crisis with France in July of 1911. Using heavy naval bombardments the Italians eventually occupied both Tobruk and Tripoli in October of 1911 and most of the coastal territories of Libya by 1912…."
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