Conscription in Great Britain
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
His Majesty’s Government asked Parliament to authorize it to introduce conscription.
Civil War in Spain ends
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Madrid formally surrendered to General Francisco Franco. The collapse of all Loyalist resistance led to a series of tribunals that judged individual leaders of the former government and imposed harsh sentences, including many executions. In all, about 750,000 people were killed in the civil war. The Italians had as many as 75,000 “volunteers” involved on the Nationalist side. Germany provided 19,000 men.
Germans occupy Bohemia and Moravia
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
A crisis erupted in Czechoslovakia in the middle of March, and with the Germans’ encouragement, Jozef Tiso, prime minister of autonomous Slovakia, proclaimed his country’s independence. Germany occupied the Czech zone the next day (March 15), thus liquidating the second Czechoslovak Republic, which had lasted for only a few months. The first Czech Republic had been established after World War One, after the disintegration of the Ausrtro-Hungarian monarchy. The second Czech Republic, was created in the wake of the Munich
