Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans began still another drive. It was geared for speed: fleets of Luftwaffe transports swarmed into rear-line fields to supply the mobile Nazi forces. This served immediately to divert the Red Army from the crucial south; it was also a necessary preliminary to any attempt to encircle and conquer Moscow itself...
...Hitler has no second year in which to conquer Russia. He has at most four months, perhaps only three, in which Russia must be conquered or the war will be lost to Germany. From his standpoint, Russia must be liquidated as an enemy before the U.S. can throw its real weight into the war. Hitler must beat Russia in time to allow the German war machine to turn and meet the enemy in the West...
...front the U.S. must show its capacity to drive the invaders not only from the Attu and Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, from Wake, from Guam, from the Philippines, but to conquer them in their own islands. To do so, U.S. armadas, in the air and on the sea, must move west, reversing the present tactical advantages. The U.S. must take the risks which Japan has so far taken, must successfully drive across the Pacific 2,575 miles from Midway to Tokyo...
...Strengthen the Anglo-Soviet alliance. . . . The trade union official who said 'Let the strike continue was not helping the workers. Strikes in this situation are ... helping the Fascists to build the gallows and dig the sandpits in which they execute the cream of the working class whenever they conquer a country...
Country's Man. "Let them come," the Gissimo said in the summer of 1940, when Chungking morale reached an all-war low, "let them drive me back into Tibet. In five years I will be back here and I will conquer all China again...