Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Pearl Harbor the United Nations commanded the seven seas. The British strategy had been to blockade Europe until Hitler ran out of oil. Six months later the United Nations have largely lost control of the Mediterranean, the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, a good part of the Pacific (the part where rubber came from). They have even had to permit the enemy to roam the Atlantic coastal waters of the continental U.S. They face the grim possibility that the Near East may fall to the Germans and India to the Japs-a juncture which would end any blockade...
Elsewhere there was little change in the great struggle for the control of East Asia and the western Pacific ocean and the general lull, which has prevailed since the Japanese conquered Burma, continued...
...size, in the long military experience of its leader and the great number of its troops, it dwarfs the forces of such historic guerrillas as the Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer, the Philippines' Emilio Aguinaldo, and Mexico's Francisco "Pancho" ("I'll use the whole ocean to gargle") Villa...
...urged from many quarters to invade the continent of Europe and so form a second front. Naturally I shall not disclose what our intentions are, but there is one thing I will say. I welcome the militant aggressive spirit of the British nation, so strongly shared across the Atlantic Ocean. ... It is encouraging and inspiring to feel the strong heartbeats of a free nation, surging forward, stern and undaunted in a righteous cause...
...Madagascar's naval base fell. In 48 hours of fierce, sharp fighting, the United Nations, far out of reach of the Axis, won an anomalous battle and reduced a glowering threat to their traffic on the Indian Ocean (see above...