Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport planes capable of ferrying almost one division per hour of regular infantry across the 130-mile median distance from the European to the British lowlands. But the full power of the invading troops-armored equipment and artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test...
...Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
...fruits in war. The present European conflict has been built up to such a degree that now it has assumed in the eyes of America the appearance of the greatest crisis in the past 2,000 years. The country has been told insistently that a German victory will threaten our way of life. For years we have been educated to look upon Germany as anti-Christian and uncivilized, bent on world domination. We have come to see the situation too much in black and white, and are thus incapacitated for any realistic appraisal of the problems of Europe...
...sure they were marked for early Nazification. It took three days last week for a great German force to move through Dresden, reputedly on the way to take up positions in the Reich's Slovak Protectorate from which to invade Hungary or Rumania. Other German forces massed to threaten Yugoslavia, and in the big hotels of Vienna anyone who dropped into conversation with a German officer was confidently assured, "We don't know at just what moment but we are going to march...
...Belgians had 24 divisions, the Allies 19, to the 100 the Germans had in use and reserve. Surrounding Liege, the Germans pressed relentlessly ahead to threaten Brussels and Antwerp. In the Coblenz area they reserved five mechanized divisions for a drive on Arlon and Longwy alone. The Belgians and the Allies under General Gamelin began to fall back on their Namur-Antwerp positions...