History 9th Grade Ethiopia

By jonahdocterloeb
  • Period: 700 BCE to 100 BCE

    Rise of Aksum and Trade with Arabia

    Aksum was a major trading power
    There was trade with Arabs
  • Period: 700 BCE to

    Religious Tensions

    Ethiopia has Coptic church
    Muslim neighbors
    Causes tension and conflicts
  • 1300

    Amda Siyon

    King
    Expanded Ethiopia a lot
  • Period: 1400 to 1500

    Age of Princes and Feudal Ethiopia

    Happend
  • Period: 1500 to

    European Colonization of Africa

    They did it
  • Period: 1580 to

    African Slave Trade

  • Berlin Conference

    European Powers met and divided up Africa
    Europeans wanted resources from Africa
    They were able to defeat natives through increased Tech

  • Italian Invasion: Battle of Adowa

    Ethiopians beat Italy
    One of the only country to no be colonized

  • 2nd Invasion

    Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia again
    Mussolini wanted to invade
    Selassie, the leader of Ethiopia exiled
    Ethiopia appealed to League of Nations
    They do nothing
    Italy used planes preemptive strikes and poison gas
  • Period: to

    Italian Occupation

    Italy built up infrastructure in Ethiopia
    There was a risistance

  • Ethiopian Liberation

    UK liberates them
    Italy surrenders
    Hale Selassie becomes Emperor again
  • Period: to

    Ethiopian Economy Early Development

    Coffee
    Eritrea gave more income

  • Federation With Eretrea

    Emperor Selassie wants Eritrea
    Pulls strings at UN
    UN says that Eritrea cannot support itself
    They become one

  • Ethiopian Democratic Reform

    Revised Constitution
    More Democracy
    Parliament
    Human Rights

  • Ethiopian Attempted Coup 1

    People want imperialism gone so country can go on
    Failed
  • Period: to

    Ethiopian Immigration

    Happend due to Push and Pull factors
    Push: political instability war famine lack of oppertunities
    Pull: immigrant community stability education/Howard University jobs
  • Period: to

    Conflict with Eritrea and Somolia

    Happend
    Border disputes
  • Period: to

    Mengistu Mariam

    Takes power after coup
    Leader
    Committed war crimes

  • Ethiopian Coup 2

    Overthrew monarchy

    PMAC and Derg
    PMAC: Provisional Military Administrative Council
    PMAC is just military dictatorship
    Derg is Marxism
    Derg purges monarchy

  • Declaration of Socialism in Ethiopia

  • Bloody Sturday

    Execution of Leaders
    60 Executed

  • Land Reform

    Created Nationalization
    Throughout 1970s
    The government got all the land

  • White Terror

    Against Derg
    Killings

  • Red Terror

    Against well educated
    Marxist purge

  • Somalia War with Ethiopia

    USSR label Somalia as aggressor during war
    Supply arms to Ethiopia
    Sends over Cuban fighters
    US ignores it
    Over border disputes

  • Refugee Act

    Lifted quotas
    Aided immigration

  • Famine in 80s

    Climaxed in 1984
    No water
    1/6 were at risk of starvation
    no aid
    Caused resettlement
  • Period: to

    Famine

  • Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

    Established after war with Eritrea ends
    create new constitution
    Implemented censorship, elections, and land ownership

  • EPRDF

    Ethiopians Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front
    Party
    Take power
    Cause Economic growth, so they are popular
  • Period: to

    Tensions with Eritrea and Somolia

    Still exist
    Troops withdrew in 2009
    They keep on fighting

  • 1995 election

    ethnic tensions cause boycott

  • 2005 election

    violence
    3000 people arrested