Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred million countrymen: The enemy now stands at our front gate. It is indeed the gravest moment in the history of our nation. . . . We must either win . . . or we shall all die. . . . The time is here for the . . . people of Japan to man their posts . . . and make secure the divine country of his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor...
...weeks the Germans had been throwing heavy counterattacks, in one of which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...
...Mediterranean, conferred with Marshals Tito and Tol-bukhin last month. That seemed to signal a concerted Allied drive in Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary, possibly aiming at a common front from the head of the Adriatic to the Danube. Last week, forestalling a possible German sortie through the Moravian Gate against the flank of their northern armies, the Russians were attacking the gate themselves...
...strin within 29 miles of Berlin. Other Russians fought their way into the town in house-to-house combat. For six days the battle raged. Then came Marshal Joseph Stalin's order of the day: Küstrin had fallen, the German capital's outer gate was unlatched...
This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia. Bismarck had laid it down as a political maxim that "whoever controls Bohemia controls Europe. " It was almost as axiomatic that whatever strong power controlled Silesia controlled Prussia...