Word: rearmament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pivotal in bringing him to power, had dropped from 6 million to less than 1 million between 1933 and 1937, this at a time when the U.S. was still wallowing in the Depression. National production and income doubled during the same period. This was partly owing to Hitler's rearmament policy, but also to more benign forms of public spending. The world's first major highway system, the autobahns, began snaking across the country, and there was talk of providing every citizen with a cheap, standardized car, the people's car, or Volkswagen...
...Allied leaders also did not understand that Hitler repeatedly lied about his plans and intentions. In a speech justifying rearmament in 1935, he declared, "Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria or to conclude an Anschluss ((unification))." He even signed a treaty with Austria in 1936 promising not to interfere in its internal affairs. But he was an Austrian, after all, and the idea of uniting the two Germanic nations can never have been far from his mind. By 1937, when he called in his generals and told them to prepare...
...into a popular book. Researched with the help of the U.S. ambassador to Britain (who just happened to be his father), John F. Kennedy '40 wrote his thesis on "Appeasement at Munich (The Inevitable Result of the Slowness of Conversion of the British Democracy from a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy)." After graduating, the future president did some additional editing and then published the book which first brought him notice: While Britain Slept...
...these next couple of years the country will witness similar battles about defense issues or, congressional floors as the conflicts between administration's rearmament dreams and budgetary realities come to a head. The White House's proposal for a 6 percent real increase in the defense budget, already the source of heated congressional debate, pales in comparison to its plans for 8 and 9 percent growth for the military...
...first term has shown that extreme hard-line positions not only fail to work with the Russians but in domestic politics as well. An analysis of the election returns makes clear that voters liked Reagan's patriotism, his emphasis on American strength and even rearmament, but also wanted far more serious effort in arms control and peaceful diplomacy...