Word: blitzkrieg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected, a civil war of sorts is being waged in Chile-but it is among Allende's own advisers. North American businessmen, who have invested as much as $1 billion in Chile, have dubbed the conflict a war between the Machiavellians and the Gradualists. The Machiavellians want a blitzkrieg nationalization of foreign economic interests; the Gradualists also want nationalization, but only a step at a time...
...example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...
Died. Basil Liddell Hart, 74, eminent British military writer whose radical theory of tank warfare was adopted by the Germans in their blitzkrieg through France; of a stroke; in Medmenham, England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart...