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5 unusual facts about Rearmament


Rearmament

Salonika Agreement (31 July 1938), a treaty permitting Bulgaria to re-arm contrary to the Treaty of Neuilly

Wiederbewaffnung (rearmament), the American plan to help re-build Germany after World War II

German re-armament (Aufrüstung), the growth of the German military in contravention of the Versailles treaty (1930s)

Moral Re-Armament (MRA), an international religious movement that arose in 1938

British re-armament, the modernisation of the British military in response to German re-armament (1930s)


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1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état

Only a week later, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended rearmament and a restoration of the draft.

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

Salisbury was part of two parliamentary deputations which called on the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, in the autumn of 1936 to remonstrate with them about the slow pace of British rearmament in the face of the growing threat from Nazi Germany.

Lothar Fendler

As part of the intensified discussion of West German rearmament after the outbreak of the Korean War in the summer of 1950, on 31 January 1951 High Commissioner for Germany John McCloy assessed the 15 death sentences handed down at Nuremberg on the recommendation of the "Advisory Board on Clemency for War Criminals".

Otto Wilhelm Furuhjelm

In this position, Otto W. Furuhjelm contributed to the rearmament of the Imperial Russian Army and earned the rank of lieutenant-general in 1871.

Treaty of Brussels

Trying to avoid the need for West German rearmament, a treaty aimed at establishing a European Defence Community was signed by the six ECSC members in May 1952 but failed when it was rejected by the French National Assembly in August 1954.


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