Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britain and France again protested but did nothing, so Hitler's aggressiveness had conquered a whole country without a shot being fired. And with that conquest came severe repression. When Hitler went to Vienna, Heinrich Himmler's police began to arrest 79,000 "unreliables." Schuschnigg was kept in a single room at police headquarters and assigned to cleaning toilets for 17 months, then shipped to Dachau. Jews were rounded up and made to get on their hands and knees and scrub away Schuschnigg campaign slogans...
...week that should concentrate the mind as never before on the real Communist threat: not conquest but collapse. Again the proposition is familiar, but the confirmation by events that it may be true has the shock of an epiphany...
When a country's name disappears from the map, it is often the result of conquest or collapse. But there is a less violent explanation that proves the pen is at least as mighty as the sword. Perhaps the country has merely changed its name...
...Republic of the Congo. Eleven years later, President Joseph Mobutu rechristened it the Republic of Zaire. A year later, he took his policy of "authenticity" personally, renaming himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Nbgendu Wa Za Banga, which means, more or less, "the all-powerful warrior who will go from conquest to conquest trailing fire in his wake...
...definition of conquest has changed. Japan has proved that territory, sheer acreage, means nothing. The Soviet Union's geographical vastness has availed little in productivity...