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The world in mid-1939 was an increasingly dangerous place. Two decades earlier, the 1919 Treaty of Versailles had ended World War I and created the League of Nations, yet the hope that the treaty would ensure a lasting peace proved futile. (See Special Feature, November 2013 ACG.) In Europe, Nazi or fascist dictatorships ruled Germany, …
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