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... forces Iwould hold Russia on the eastern front while the main Ger- man forces made a lightning thrust on the western front . According to Schlieffen's plan the spearhead of that western thrust was to be a great wheeling movement through ...
... forces Iwould hold Russia on the eastern front while the main Ger- man forces made a lightning thrust on the western front . According to Schlieffen's plan the spearhead of that western thrust was to be a great wheeling movement through ...
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... forces isolated in Indo - China could expect few re- inforcements , and indeed Thailand had recently snatched part of French Laos and Cambodia . On 21 July 1941 France and Japan signed a mutual security pact , by which Japan was ...
... forces isolated in Indo - China could expect few re- inforcements , and indeed Thailand had recently snatched part of French Laos and Cambodia . On 21 July 1941 France and Japan signed a mutual security pact , by which Japan was ...
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... Forces in the Far East , and heard the confidential view that Japan was already over - extended and that any Japanese attempt to capture the Dutch East Indies or Malaya could be thwarted . Page then flew to Washington where he heard ...
... Forces in the Far East , and heard the confidential view that Japan was already over - extended and that any Japanese attempt to capture the Dutch East Indies or Malaya could be thwarted . Page then flew to Washington where he heard ...
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