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In an effort to stop Spain...

history · 28 January 1944 · 80 years ago

In an effort to stop Spain from supplying Germany with war materials and to withdraw her troops from the Russian Front, the US and Britain announced an oil embargo. This embargo will last about 4 months until Franco finally gave in. 

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