This is the decade in which the order built after 1918 was tested and failed — twice over, on opposite sides of the world. In Asia, Japan’s army manufactures an incident at Mukden in 1931 and rides it to Manchuria, then to a full war on China. In Europe, Germany and Italy probe the same weakness: rearmament, Abyssinia, the Rhineland, Spain, Austria, Munich, Prague — each gamble unpunished, each unpunished gamble the license for the next.
Twelve chapters follow both roads until they meet at Pearl Harbor. Watch the map darken — charcoal is the aggressors’ color here, red the ground they hold by force. Scrub the timeline, interrogate any territory, and sit the Field Exam when you can read the 1930s the way the chancelleries should have.
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