Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stage III, which began with the defense of Stalingrad, was almost Stage I in reverse. The Allied world tingled periodically to the announcement of new campaigns and invasions, even as the Germans had once tingled...
...Balance Tips. Stage III began with several months in which the Allies had an edge in manpower but were only on about equal terms in weapons...
...held the Allies' secondary attack in Italy. It launched a vigorous offensive in the Ardennes. But, once its two initial advantages in manpower and weapons had been definitely lost, it did not conduct a single successful campaign. Like the Allies in Stage I, the Germans in Stage III lost every major battle...
...German mind another thought was probably stirring-the thought that if Russia, then rapidly preparing against attack, were not beaten in 1941, Germany would never be strong enough to beat her. Then Germany might have won World War II only to lose World War III to Russia - two years or five years or 20 years afterward...
...history. Into The Netherlands, just liberated by the surrender of all the occupying German forces, dropped Queen Wilhelmina (after five years' exile in Britain) and Princess Juliana (after five years' exile in Canada and the U.S.). Into Switzerland, en route to Belgium, rode King Leopold III, after five years of imprisonment in Germany...