Word: rhineland
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Versailles broke down completely in solving Europe's long-range problems-the causes of World War II. The League failed to enforce the peace. The Rhineland was evacuated five years early. When Hitler came along, even Allied governments gave him some support, because he promised order in Central Europe and a crusade against Bolshevism. The system of Versailles provided no unifying policy or principle to keep peace and plenty in Europe...
...other hand, the French take emphatic exception to the reported plan of Prime Minister Churchill to place the Rhineland under the control of Britain, the United States, France and Russia. The French contention ... is that the vital industries of the Rhineland should be under 'predominantly' French control...
...other hand, the French take emphatic exception to the reported plan of Prime Minister Churchill to place the Rhineland under the control of Britain, the United States, France and Russia. The French contention ... is that the vital industries of the Rhineland should be under 'predominantly' French control...
Perhaps the figures were optimistic, on both sides-but the Germans were already showing the effect of serious losses. Although they kept up their bizarre token offensive in Alsace, they were pulling men and armor out of the Rhineland into central Germany, evidently hoping to hold the Westwall with Volksgrenadiere. The British profited by this withdrawal to move up to the Roer River, while Allied air attacks on the enemy's eastward movement gave direct tactical help to Russia...
...days Allied reconnaissance planes had been reporting troop move ments in the Palatinate (southwestern corner of the German Rhineland), so the attack could not have been another sur prise. But the U.S. Seventh Army troops in that area found it hard to deal with. The deepest thrust reached 15 miles to the south before it was stopped...