Siege of Saïo the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, proclaimed the colony of "Africa Orientale Italiana" (AOI, Italian East Africa), formed from Ethiopia (after the Italian victory in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, fought 3 October 1935 – May 1936) and the existing Italian possessions of Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. On 10 June 1940, Mussolini declared war on Britain and France, which made Italian military forces in Libya a threat to Egypt and those in Italian East Africa a danger to the British and French colonies in East Africa. Italian belligerence also closed the Mediterranean to Allied merchant ships and endangered British supply routes
British intervention in Spanish American independence It celebrated the centenary of the South American movement to Independence, and during the event it was declared that: British intervention in Spanish American independence The British intervention in the Spanish American wars of independence was the military, political and diplomatic attitudes adopted by the United Kingdom, and also the attitude of its merchants and private citizens during the course of South American Wars of Independence. The involvement of Great Britain in the war between the Spanish monarchy and the insurgents or revolutionaries was ambiguous and changing, and obeyed various interests, both private and state, which did not always coincide.