So, how exactly did the Entente powers survive 1942 and end up winning the war?
We have been discussing the Second Weltkrieg in our high school class this last week (spoiler I live in New England so we have a lot more to talk about then the rest of the country) and when we reached 1942 I was thrown for a loop. In class we went from the German collapse in early 1942, to the Entente capture of Rome, the raid on Ireland, and victory in India, all of which takes place at the least 6 months after the fall of Berlin. So, what happened in the meantime? How did the Entente pull through the fall of the Reichspact and survive enough to start winning?
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Wow! What a great question, and one that is often glanced over in many public school settings and popular discussions of the war. Unfortunately for you and a lot of other students of the Second Weltkrieg, we are painted a much rosier picture of Entente victories then was actually the case. The Entente's "noble crusade" to reclaim Europe from the Totalist Menace was constantly fueled by the blood of hundreds of thousands of her soldiers, especially in the crucial year of 1942. It is often easy to forget that following the Second Weltkrieg, France, for instance, was so exhausted with war as a whole that throughout the 1950's their primary diplomatic focus was to avoid costly entanglements the world over. (Much to the chagrin of their British allies) As you pointed out, before the Entente could secure those crucial victories mentioned above, there was a six month period where the Entente could only hope to survive against the incoming onslaught of the victorious Communard forces from the North. They had to buy this survival with some of the greatest sacrifices they would make yet.
A small side note, we will be following this answer through the perspective of Republican France throughout this period, whenever you read "Republican forces" think of them. This makes sense to me, a historian, because the French were the most heavily engaged member of the Entente, who also took command of the majority of the more important fronts during the war in Europe especially. If history is written by the victor, the victor is most definitely the one who sacrificed the most for that victory.
So without further ado, let me try and answer you the question you essentially ask: How did the Entente powers survive after the fall of Berlin?
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Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
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Chronologie des mouvements et artistes de l'art moderne
Avant 1914
- Impressionnisme : Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley,Vincent Van Gogh
- Postimpressionnisme : Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Symbolisme : Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Fernand Khnopff, Max Klinger
- Art nouveau : Gustav Klimt, Alfons Mucha, Victor Horta
- Fauvisme : André Derain, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck
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- De Stijl (début en 1917) : Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg
L'entre-deux-guerres
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L'après-guerre
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- École de Londres : Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Kossof, Andrews
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- Arte Povera : Michelangelo Pistolett
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No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
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Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
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