Word: rhineland
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...could not have chosen better than, to name just two, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his successor, Neville Chamberlain. Indeed, Nazi moles would not have dared to undermine Britain's defenses, diplomatic as well as military, as blatantly as did those two ambitious bumblers. After Hitler marched into the Rhineland in 1936, Baldwin rejected pressure to appoint Churchill as Minister of Defense with the compelling logic that "if I pick Winston, Hitler will be cross." In 1938, after meeting the Fuhrer, the deluded Chamberlain could say, "I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon...
...March of that year, a newly-reconstituted German army marched into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland and the government foisted the first of two four-year plans on its inhabitants to transfer control of economic life to the state in order that a condition of national war readiness might be achieved...
Three years later Hitler marched into the Rhineland and started World War II. By the time the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 our lives had become increasingly affected by the war, and many of us wound up in one or another of the armed forces for the duration. Some were killed and wounded in the service of their country; I remain convinced that many more would have died, including thousands of other Americans and Japanese, had not President Truman approved the dropping of the atom bomb which brought the war to a half...
...instance, in its performance of the classic "Swan Lake," the company wore blue costumes rather than white. And the dancers introduced a new perspective on "Giselle," setting it in ante-bellum Louisiana rather than the forest of the Rhineland...
Grave disorders occurred at Berlin and in the Rhineland, caused by a serious food shortage. Riots and pillaging of shops occurred at many points and there were some clashes with police forces. Many people were killed and injured...