Japan approves scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports
NPR →The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.
Embargo Raised on Arms
Washington—Two million seven hundred thousand rounds of ammunition bought and paid for in this country more than a year and a half ago by the Mexican government has been released for shipment into Mexico.
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War Industries Board
The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department (Department of the Army) and the Navy Department. it was founded by the Council of National Defense (which on its turn came into existence by the appropriation bill of August 1916).
Wikipedia →Armistice of 11 November 1918
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. It was concluded after the German government sent a message to American president Woodrow Wilson to negotiate terms on the basis of a recent speech of his and the earlier declared 'Fourteen Points', which later became the basis of the German surrender.
Wikipedia →Nye Committee
The Nye Committee, officially known as the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a United States Senate committee (April 12, 1934 – February 24, 1936), chaired by U.S. Senator Gerald Nye (R-ND). The committee investigated the financial and banking interests that underlay the United States' involvement in World War I and the operations and profits of the industrial and commercial firms supplying munitions to the Allies and to the United States. It was a significant factor in public and political support for American neutrality during the Great Depression.
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