Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt laid the policy's foundation before and at Yalta; President Truman carried on at Potsdam. The salient, underlying factor was Roosevelt's belief that: 1) China was the U.S.'s natural ally in Asia; 2) in her present and probable postwar weakness, China alone could not be relied on to withstand Russia's inroads. Roosevelt therefore reasoned that his only recourse was an attempt to build at least a temporary bridge of understanding between China and Russia, and hope that political or other conflict could be postponed during China's recovery. Soong...
...increasingly large curricula and in the so-called course unit system prevalent in U.S. high schools, the Committee discovers "alienation of students from each other in mind and outlook because their courses of study . . . are so distinct, and the disjointedness of any given student's work . . ." as salient dangers...
After a whirlwind trip to Europe, Robert Houghwout (rhymes with plow it) Jackson last week summarized the U.S. policy on war crimes. Its salient features (promptly approved by President Truman...
...awarded the Bronze Star. Later the division took part in the Saint-L6 breakthrough. It blasted a path east to Aachen, fought through snowstorms and blizzards. At Rundstedt's breakthrough in December, with the 991h and the hardened 9th and 2nd, it held the Germans at a critical salient shoulder, cleared Bonn, then plunged south to join the bridgehead cut out by the 9th Armored Division at Remagen...
...Most Germans realize now or profess to realize that this war was unnecessary and wrong. But they still don't go beyond that to the salient realization that Naziism and everything that went with it was wrong. The main reason the war seems wrong to them is because they lost it. They place the blame on Hitler because he got them into it; if he had won the war few people in Germany today would be concerned with the question of whether the war was right or wrong...