In 1941-42 United States intended that France, together with soon-to-be defeated Italy, Germany and Japan, was to be part of protectorate run by Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories. ..…
From there, Allied troops would advance their fight, take Paris in late summer and march in a race against the Soviets to control as much German territory as possible by the time Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker and Germany surrendered in May 1945. . The final battles would divide Europe for..…
At this battle, the Soviet Union inflicted on Germany the biggest defeat any nation had ever inflicted upon any other nation in the history of human warfare. ... A Soviet soldier, right, hugs a soldier from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, May 1945, in Grabow, Germany. |..…
But it was always clear from the beginning that Hitler was moving east, not west — toward Soviet Union. it's certainty that the war would have been between Germany and Soviet Union — i.e., Nazism versus communism, while Western powers stood aside and let them fight it out..…
In riposte to a US first strike, a significant proportion of the Soviets’ surviving nuclear devices would be fired at most, or all, of the following NATO countries: West Germany, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Turkey – each of which would face annihilation, either..…
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