Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Korea s the nearest point of the mainland from Japan, and the samurai had no easy access to Manchuria, Siberia and China without first dominating Korea. So, the samurai were out to got Korea by chicanery. Since the signing of the first treaty in 1876, they wooed the Korean friendship. In declaring war on Russia the Japanese Emperor said, "Separate existence of Korea is essential to the safety of our realm." And Japan unduly influenced Korea to sign a treaty of defensive an defensive alliance against Russia on February 23, 1904. Article III of the treaty read: "The Imperial Government...
...patrols could give the Germans a powerful screen for an attempted crossing to the Caucasian mainland. Once there they would not only be in a position to wheel around and strike at the Don line from the rear, but could reach out for the oil fields around Maikop, less than 200 miles to the southeast...
Churchill: "The enemy's only shortage is in the air. That is a very serious shortage, but for the rest he still retains the initiative. We have not had the force to take it from him. He has divisions, he has weapons, and on the mainland of Europe he has ample means of transport...
...Aquarium was first a fort, built by the Government in 1807 on a rocky, offshore island in Manhattan harbor. Ceded to the city some 15 years later, it became an auditorium, Castle Garden, connected to the mainland by a pier.* At Castle Garden such notables as Lafayette, Louis Kossuth, Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) were publicly welcomed. There Jenny Lind made her U.S. debut...
...attackers opened up with nocturnal bombing. At midnight they sent a wave of tanks and motorized infantry down to the narrow neck of Perekop, which joins Crimea with the mainland. Simultaneously they dropped swarms of parachutists behind the Russian lines and sent naval parties to land at many points...