Weeks Of War

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Weeks Of War

Winston Churchill called 1942 WWII's 'Hinge of Fate'. The German and Japanese war machines had started to falter. But everything remained in the balance. 1943 begins with the Casablanca Conference and the release of the film Casablanca. We see the events in the week of the Sovie...

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By the Spring of 1942, German armies were deep inside the Soviet Union, on the offensive in North Africa, and in control of virtually the whole of Western Europe.
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As Asia, North Africa and Europe grapple with the 'dark clouds' of war, these weeks of war see the British base of Singapore fall, the SS agreeing on a 'final solution' and the approval to develop the world’s most powerful weapon. But it is a single event in the Pacific that decisively transforms the war into total global ...
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After the so-called 'Phony War' up to May 1940, German forces had smashed their way from Belgium and France to the English Channel. Nazi Germany seemed poised to exert its dominance over Europe.
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The first weeks of a war that was to disrupt the lives of so many did not in fact start with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, but two years earlier on July 7th, 1937, in China. The first shots were fired by the Japanese, in an incident with the Chinese Nationalist army at the Marco Polo Bridge just outside of Beijing. ...
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