In the newly created Italian Empire, Italy had used most of the economic and military resources available during the conquest of Ethiopia from 1935 to 1936, during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, and during the invasion of Albania in 1939. In the early 1930s, the Italian Royal Army successfully fought an Arab guerrilla war in Italian North Africa ("Africa Settentrionale Italiana", or ASI). The Italians fought another guerilla war in Italian East Africa ("Africa Orientale Italiana", or AOI) between 1936 and 1940.