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The Fall of France: Blitzkrieg in the West
Everyone expected a long war. The French had built the Maginot Line, an impressive chain of fortifications along the German border. They believed it was im…
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The Liberation of Paris: A City Freed
August 1944. The Allies were racing across France after the breakout from Normandy. The French Resistance, which had been waiting for this moment, rose up…
Rise of America
The Marshall Plan: How America Built the World It Wanted to Live In
In June 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall gave a commencement address at Harvard that would change the postwar world. He proposed that the United St…