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		<property name="strDescription" value="&#010;User Contributed Scenario&#010;Author: Red Hammer Mod Team&#010;&#010;It's 1924. The Great War has ended with the defeat of the Central Powers and the signing of the treaty of Versailles.  For now the world can recuperate and rebuild what it lost; but this time of rest won't last for much longer.  New, radical ideologies are beginning to take hold of Europe, nations are rebuilding their shattered armies and the Great Depression will soon grip the global economy; dark storm clouds loom during these years.&#010;&#010;For now there is calm, but how long will the calm last?"/>
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		<property name="strHistoricalComparison" value="In the 1930s, conflicts separated the world&apos;s major nations into three camps. &#010;&#010;1) Germany, Italy, Japan, and Nationalist Spain wanted to overthrow the world order using diplomacy, threats, and/or force. &#010;&#010;2) The USSR, China, and Republican Spain strove to preserve the status quo through the same means. &#010;&#010;3) Britain, France, and the US objected to the aggressiveness of the first group, but resisted alignment with the second.  &#010;&#010;Only the USSR helped the Spanish Republican government in its civil war. Britain and France stayed neutral.  Their citizens did not want bloodshed, while their governments did not want alliance with the Soviets. &#010;&#010;Germany and Italy sent &quot;volunteer&quot; brigades to test military technologies and tactics. On March 28 1939, victorious Nationalist forces entered Madrid.&#010;&#010;Germany&apos;s swift occupation of Austria on March 12, 1938, shocked the West. This Anschluss was justified by the rhetoric of self-determination; ethnic Germans had the right to unite under the Nazi flag.  &#010;&#010;Western statesmen sought to appease Germany through diplomacy. These efforts culminated at the Munich Conference of September 1938, when Britain, France, and Italy transferred the Sudetenland--an ethnically German region in Czechoslovakia--to Germany, despite Czechoslovakian and Soviet opposition. Britain announced that the Sudetenland transfer would bring peace to Europe. &#010;&#010;This idealism shattered in March 1939, when Germany annexed half of Czechoslovakia and turned the other half into a puppet state.&#010; &#010;Japan&apos;s territorial aggressions proved equally blatant. Chinese patriotism pushed the unwilling Nationalist government into battle. In July 1937, a skirmish set off the Sino-Japanese War. &#010;&#010;By the spring of 1939, the world has seen Fascist victories in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Spain, and Japanese successes in China. Totalitarian states are on the march; the balance of global power has shifted into their hands."/>
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