Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will look at a map of Eastern Asia you can readily see the strategic position of the Korean peninsula, and you can also imagine why Japan fought China in 1894, and Russia in 1904. Your conclusion will be-control of Korea...
Heavy German artillery at Kerch, the eastern harbor of the peninsula, could dominate the narrow straits and cut off whatever units of the Soviet Black Sea fleet might be left in the Sea of Azov...
Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...
This southern arm cut off the Crimea, with its naval base at Sevastopol, from communication with the mainland. The Russians, far from giving the peninsula up-perhaps remembering that in the Crimean War 86 years ago Sevastopol resisted British and French siege for over eleven long months-rushed reinforcements by sea, prepared to make a bitter stand, as at Odessa and Leningrad...
...Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...