Page 538 Germany annexed ~50% more territory than it held. By 1939, the size of the country was ~50% larger.
Page 538 Germany annexed ~50% more territory than it held. By 1939, the size of the country was ~50% larger. Germany wanted to repopulate the world with Aryan Germans, while Italy had no similar plans. Italy was also surrounded on 3 sides by water.
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Pages 544-545 The yellow icons!... The Axis Powers were more aggressive at the beginning of the war; their offensives during the first 3 years of the war first moved east in 1940, west in 1941, then east in 1942
Page 548 Nearly 4,000 miles
Page 548 Nearly 4,000 miles Asia and the Pacific were sea-based; Europe was land-based