 Complete the following phrase:  Italy in 1936 requested the League of Nations to recognize the annexation of Ethiopia. All member nations including Britain and France, with the exception of the Soviet Union, voted to support it. The King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia and the Italians created an Italian empire in Africa Italian East Africa with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Italian Somalia, with its capital Addis Abeba. In 1937 Mussolini boasted that, with his conquest of Ethiopia, finally 