The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 29Grolier, 2000 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 383
... Soviet Intervention . - Hastening to end the war before the Western powers could act , the Germans on September 3 requested the Soviet Union to move against Poland , but the Russians were not ready . The German speed had taken them by ...
... Soviet Intervention . - Hastening to end the war before the Western powers could act , the Germans on September 3 requested the Soviet Union to move against Poland , but the Russians were not ready . The German speed had taken them by ...
Page 422
... Soviet policy was to avoid provocation . From the beginning the Nazi- Soviet Pact had hardly been an instrument of mutual faith and confidence , but the Soviet government became even more conciliatory as it came to realize that it was ...
... Soviet policy was to avoid provocation . From the beginning the Nazi- Soviet Pact had hardly been an instrument of mutual faith and confidence , but the Soviet government became even more conciliatory as it came to realize that it was ...
Page 517
... Soviet aims seemed to be approxi- mately in harmony with those of the West : Austria , Czechoslovakia , Albania , Greece , and Yugoslavia were to be restored as independent states with as much territory as they had held before being ...
... Soviet aims seemed to be approxi- mately in harmony with those of the West : Austria , Czechoslovakia , Albania , Greece , and Yugoslavia were to be restored as independent states with as much territory as they had held before being ...
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