Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Ettore Bastico. Its 50,000 men are divided into three corps; "armored" divisions equipped with heavy tanks and mobile artillery; four "swift" divisions of fast tanks and light guns; "motorized" troops which can travel at high speed over open roads. Theoretically, after the armored corps has made a breakthrough, the other divisions will keep the enemy rolling back without an opportunity of reforming its lines...
...Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers far too small to be effective. If Brilliant Mind Winston Churchill and Brilliant Mind Lloyd George, whose ideas were squelched by the military men, had had full scope...
This was the first mass murder ever effected directly by a chemical agent in war.* The Germans made a 3½-mile breakthrough, would have penetrated much more decisively had the German high command had more confidence in their new weapon before it was tried...