Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin's armies would meet no such fate. Besides their overwhelming numerical superiority, they were also well supplied, competently commanded...
...imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American principles of freedom and democracy." And what, the Senator asked, is to be done about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with the British and Russians in their desire to keep China weak? . . . As we wrest the Pacific islands from Japan at such cost in American blood...
...fate of Budapest and of Vienna, 135 miles beyond it, depended upon how much the Germans could spare to defend them. With Germany's east and west fronts in peril, how much was left for the south? Would Hungary's 35 divisions follow Horthy's line? Or would they follow the new government of Ferenc Szalasi, leader of the Fascist Arrow Cross...
...certain was Hungary's eventual fate that both General Eisenhower and the Moscow radio deemed it time to serve notice on Austria. Said a broadcast to Austria from east and west: prepare for the arrival of the Allies. How the Allies would arrive was not explained, but the Russians already had a long start...
...Arnhem, where the Allies had at stake the fate of perhaps 8,000 men, the Germans faced the loss of several times that number in western Holland, with the added prospect of having the Siegfried Line turned at its northern end, and the whole of north Germany laid open to invasion. At week's end it appeared that the greater part of the Allied stake would be saved and the greater part of the German stake would be lost...