THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 1
March 1 in history
What happened on March 1: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1918 and 1970, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Bread Peace with Ukraine
1 Mar 1918 — German troops enter Kyiv, propping a client government in exchange for a promised million tons of grain. A million men stay east to hold and strip the conquest — men Ludendorff will shortly need in France.
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— Ruskin women’s liberation conference
27 Feb – 1 Mar 1970 — Between 500 and 600 women meet at an Oxford college for working-class adults in the first national women’s liberation conference in Britain. The movement agrees its first four demands, among them equal pay and 24-hour nurseries.
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