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Mining

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1940Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1940

Neville Chamberlain29 February 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Calls off mining Norwegian waters, might effect neutrals such as the USA & Sweden

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill26 March 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Wins support of the war Cabinet & the Allied supreme war Council to mine Norway

Names involved

Neville ChamberlainWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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