Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What distinguished the actual occupation was that the Führer personally "struck" from the sea. As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler...
Napoleon, the last man to go conquering through Europe, lasted 15 years. Adolf Hitler has already lasted six. Historians wondered, now that he has taken to outright conquest, how many more good years he had coming to him. For the history books say he who begins swallowing minorities begins swallowing poison...
...only one error in timing-when he started a punch at Austria in 1934 and was blocked by Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
...Peroy will pit his fencers against Yale at New Haven this afternoon in their final match of the season. Led by Captain Skip Batchelder, the swordsmen have dropped only one dual meet so far this year and stand a good chance of winding up the season with an easy conquest of Yale...
WARSAW--A demonstration celebrating the attainment of a Polish-Hungarian frontier by means of Hungary's conquest of Carpathe-Ukrainia incited tonight shouts of "Down with Germany" and a clash between police and anti-Nazi students...