Road to WW2 · TURNING POINT · 1934

Wal Wal incident (1934)

On the Road to WW2 map as “Wal Wal”

5 Dec 1934 — Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at a watering hole deep inside Ethiopia’s Ogaden. Italy had quietly built a fort there. The clash gives Mussolini a pretext a year before he needs it.

When: 5 Dec 1934
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Italian invasion of Abyssinia (chapter 4 of Road to WW2)
Atlas: The Road to War, 1931–1941

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Map showing Wal Wal incident (1934), turning point in The Road to War, 1931–1941 — TURNING POINT · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — Hitler appointed chancellor, 30 January 1933 · IGM Fiume, 1:25,000, sheet53B II SE — boundary established in1924 · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Yugoslavia (1929–1939) location map — international frontier and Adriatic coast · Treaty of Rome (1924), division of Fiume and west-bank boundary

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — Hitler appointed chancellor, 30 January 1933. Historical chronology consulted; no source prose or artwork republished
Istituto Geografico Militare, Fiume (printed1946; 1927 survey with1931–1940 updates), reproduced by Istituto regionale per la storia della Resistenza e dell’Età contemporanea nel Friuli Venezia Giulia. Independent reconstruction from graticule coordinates and boundary observations; archive page reserves artwork rights.. Geographical-fact reconstruction; original archive artwork not distributed
Natural Earth. Public domain
NordNordWest/Wikipedia. Converted from the published SVG to WGS84; eastern Italian regional territory extracted. Source cites Velhagen & Klasings Großer Volksatlas (1938).. CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany
1924 agreement interpreted alongside the regional history institute and City of Rijeka’s explanation of the Donja/Gornja Drenova division.. Historical geographic facts; citation only

The source keeps the legacy name Weimar Republic for its 1933–1935 outline. The dated chapter assigns this unchanged geometry to the German Reich after Hitler became chancellor on 30 January 1933.

The eastern Italian frontier uses the published 1930s regional map and a 1924 Fiume boundary reconstruction. Source conquests after April 1941 remain separately dated.

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