Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divide & Conquer. The Axis grand strategy, conceived in Berlin, is, almost certainly, to divide the forces of its foes and then to conquer each sector separately. Allied strength is maintained by sea power, supported by a string of fortresses stretching around the world: Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Alexandria, Singapore, Hawaii, Panama. The reduction of any of these bastions would cut the Allied life line. The reduction of several would be a catastrophe. There were signs this week that the Axis was planning an assault on one or several...
...extending the war to the U.S. the Axis gambled on a short war. A logical schedule for ending it quickly: 1) divide and conquer the British Empire, while 2) keeping the U.S. on the defensive, and 3) choking off aid to China and Russia; then 4) deal with China and Russia, and finally 5) offer the U.S. the alternative of making peace or fighting alone...
Sept. 18, 1931. Japanese troops, without warning, marched into Mukden, went on to conquer the Chinese province of Manchuria, set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai; its Army moved in to kill some 100,000 Chinese...
Rosenberg did most of the talking, and Adolf Hitler had never heard anything like it. He talked of a superpeople modeled on Nietzsche's "blond beasts" who would despise such feeble Christian virtues as humility and tolerance, who would glorify fighting strength and conquer the world, who would, obviously, be the reanimated German people...
Hitler can conquer Russia, said Professor Karpovich, only by infitcting such damages on the Russian army as to force it to sue for peace, and this the Germans seem unable...