Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twenty-three years later, Woodrow Wilson brought about the resurrection of Poland. Out of the wreck of the central powers and the Russian Empire, new states were created, Poland and the Baltic States among them. Almost at once the Poles found themselves in a new war with the Russians. Marshal Pilsudski led the Polish Army to Kiev to support Hetman Petlura's attempt to carve out an independent Ukraine. The infant Red Army drove out Petlura, chased Pilsudski to the gates of Warsaw. There, General Maxime Weygand of France, in collaboration with the Polish general staff, devised a brilliant...
Partisans and Democrats. No Marshal Tito has emerged in Rumania, but three underground parties (the National Liberation Front, the Patriotic Front, the Anti-Fascist Committee for the Struggle for Peace) are guiding sabotage and organizing partisan resistance...
...only one if Germany should lose the war. Bulgaria could give her material aid: in Rumanian-held Bessarabia, now in the path of the Red Army, was a potential fifth column of over 150,000 Bulgars; in Yugoslavian Macedonia, Bulgarian troops were doing German guard duty against pro-Russian Marshal Tito's Partisans (some Bulgars had already joined his ranks...
...Team. Under Eisenhower, the invasion command is largely British. Wiry, brilliant Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder of Mediterranean air fame, is to be Deputy Supreme Commander-in effect the executive officer directing the entire massive campaign by land, sea and air. The Royal Navy's Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay will be chief of Allied Naval Forces; the R.A.F.'s Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, chief of Allied Tactical Air Forces...
...point of wrecking key German industries, with billiards-shark precision. In their long-distance strategic operations, both Eaker and Doolittle will be under Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz, another American member of Eisenhower's old Mediterranean team. A member of that team as yet unaccounted for is Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, the R.A.F.'s great expert in tactical bombing...