第二次意大利-埃塞俄比亚战争，又称第二次意大利-阿比西尼亚战争，是意大利对埃塞俄比亚发动的一场侵略战争，

第二次意大利-埃塞俄比亚战争，又称第二次意大利-阿比西尼亚战争，是意大利对埃塞俄比亚发动的一场侵略战争，从 1935 年 10 月持续到 1937 年 2 月。 在埃塞俄比亚，它通常被简称为 "意大利入侵"（阿姆哈拉语：ጣልያን ወረራ ，罗马音：Ṭalyan warära），（奥罗莫语：Weerara Xaaliyaanii），而在意大利则被称为 "埃塞俄比亚战争"（意大利语：Guerra d'Etiopia）。 这场战争被视为轴心国扩张主义政策和第二次世界大战爆发前国际联盟无效的一个例证。

意大利入侵埃塞俄比亚将引发英意关系危机，这一前景在柏林被视为一个机会。 尽管希特勒不希望看到海尔-塞拉西获胜，但出于对意大利迅速获胜的担心，德国还是向埃塞俄比亚提供了一些武器。[39]德国的观点是，如果意大利在埃塞俄比亚陷入长期战争，很可能会导致英国推动国联对意大利实施制裁，而法国由于害怕破坏与英国的关系，几乎肯定不会否决国联的制裁；这样就会造成英意关系危机，德国就可以向意大利提供 "优质服务"。

埃塞俄比亚最后一个可能的外国盟友是日本，它曾是一些埃塞俄比亚知识分子的榜样。 韦尔韦勒事件发生后，一些日本右翼团体，包括大亚洲主义协会和黑龙会，试图为埃塞俄比亚的事业筹集资金。 7 月 16 日，日本驻意大利大使杉村洋太郎博士向墨索里尼保证，日本在埃塞俄比亚没有任何政治利益，并将在即将到来的战争中保持中立。 他的言论在日本国内激起了轩然大波，在日本，民众对非洲的非白人帝国同胞充满了好感，[40] 意大利国内也对日本报以同样的愤怒，同时对墨索里尼及其反对 "东京黄种人"（"gialli di Tokyo"）的坚定立场大加赞赏。[40]尽管民意如此，当埃塞俄比亚人在 8 月 2 日向日本求助时，他们还是遭到了拒绝，甚至连要求日本政府发表正式声明在即将到来的冲突中支持埃塞俄比亚的温和请求也被拒绝了[41]。

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion (Amharic: ጣልያን ወረራ, romanized: Ṭalyan warära), (Oromo: Weerara Xaaliyaanii), and in Italy as the Ethiopian War (Italian: Guerra d'Etiopia). It is seen as an example of the expansionist policy that characterized the Axis powers and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations before the outbreak of the Second World War.

The prospect that an Italian invasion of Ethiopia would cause a crisis in Anglo-Italian relations was seen as an opportunity in Berlin. Although Hitler did not want to see Haile Selassie win, Germany provided some weapons to Ethiopia out of fear of quick victory for Italy.[39] The German perspective was that if Italy was bogged down in a long war in Ethiopia, that would probably lead to Britain pushing the League of Nations to impose sanctions on Italy, which the French would almost certainly not veto out of fear of destroying relations with Britain; that would cause a crisis in Anglo-Italian relations and allow Germany to offer its "good services" to Italy.[39] In that way, Hitler hoped to win Mussolini as an ally and to destroy the Stresa Front.[39]

A final possible foreign ally of Ethiopia was Japan, which had served as a model to some Ethiopian intellectuals. After the Welwel incident, several right-wing Japanese groups, including the Great Asianism Association and the Black Dragon Society, attempted to raise money for the Ethiopian cause. The Japanese ambassador to Italy, Dr. Sugimura Yotaro, on 16 July assured Mussolini that Japan held no political interests in Ethiopia and would stay neutral in the coming war. His comments stirred up a furor inside Japan, where there had been popular affinity for the fellow nonwhite empire in Africa,[40] which was reciprocated with similar anger in Italy towards Japan combined with praise for Mussolini and his firm stance against the "gialli di Tokyo" ("Tokyo Yellows").[40] Despite popular opinion, when the Ethiopians approached Japan for help on 2 August, they were refused, and even a modest request for the Japanese government for an official statement of its support for Ethiopia during the coming conflict was denied.[41]