Word: interwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politically animated. The heirs of the Enlightenment try to balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism is nothing new). The Zionists send their youths to experimental farms known as kibbutzim to train them for settling the Promised Land. Hassidim responded to the Jewish interwar political explosion by renewing orthodoxy. The Jewish Socialist Bund--"We're the young brigade of the proletariat," the children chant--stands at the fore of the trade union movement. There are labor Zionists on the left and revisionist Zionists on the right. Opposed to the Zionists are those who uphold...
...become the decisive instruments of modern warfare. The establishment in the winter of 1959-60 of the Strategic Rocket Forces as a separate service marked the onset of a fundamental transformation of Soviet military thinking and development that is still in the course of implementation. Just as in the interwar years, the German Reichswehr had developed a novel strategy for rapid breakthroughs of static defenses centered on the tank which the British had invented in World War I, so the Russians had taken over the U.S. developed nuclear warhead, fitted it onto the German-devised rocket, and formulated a fresh...