Transcription: The 40s saw the rise of Juan Perón in Argentina and Mao Zedong in China. India threw off the British crown and was partitioned into independent states on religious grounds while South Africa instituted apartheid and divided the country on racial grounds. Total war is the subject of the decade essay by Robert Stone. In 1940, the British engineered a successful rescue of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers trapped by Germans in the French port town of Dunkirk. The British evacuation, carried out under Nazi air attack, was a smashing success and provided the boost to Allied morale. The U.S. ...
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