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During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ), where ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.
** Axis & Allies: while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode ( which has the Axis powers winning the war ), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.
* Blohm & Voss BV 238 flying-boat ( prototype ), the single largest Axis aircraft design of the war years to fly
* Axis & Allies ( 1998 video game ) — Windows
* Axis & Allies ( 2004 video game ), a WWII real-time strategy computer game
Wizards released the Dungeons & Dragons miniatures collectible pre-painted plastic miniatures games in 2003, and added a licensed Star Wars line in 2004, and through its Avalon Hill brand an Axis & Allies World War II miniatures game in 2005.
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Originally designed by Larry Harris and published by Nova Game Designs in 1981, Games magazine also has inducted Axis & Allies into their buyers ' guide Hall of Fame., an honor the magazine extends to " games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years ; i. e., classics.
Axis & Allies: Classic was the most successful of the five Gamemaster Series of board games.
In 1999, Hasbro transferred the Axis & Allies: Classic ( 1984 ) board game from the Milton Bradley division to the Avalon Hill division.
The Axis & Allies ( 1984 – present ) board game series is currently produced by WotC under the Avalon Hill label.
There are a total of 11 board games in the Axis & Allies series, 8 of which are currently available from many game resellers.
The two out-of-print A & A board games, Axis & Allies: Classic ( 1984 ) and Axis & Allies: 50th Anniversary Edition ( 2008 ) can be found on various auction websites.
The original Axis & Allies: Classic board game has been followed by ten spinoff games using more or less the same mechanics: in 1999, Axis & Allies: Europe was released, with slightly updated rules and focus on the European theater of World War II ; this was followed in 2001 by Axis & Allies: Pacific with similar rules and focus shifted to the Pacific theater.

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To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August:
Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
People of Eindhoven ( during World War II ) watching Allies of World War II | Allied forces entering the city following its liberation from Axis powers | Axis forces on 19 September 1944.
The Allies, including the government in exile's Free French Forces and later a liberated French nation, eventually emerged victorious over the Axis Powers.
In the aftermath of World War II, the victory of the Allies over the Axis powers led to the collapse of multiple fascist regimes in Europe.
In three day's fighting, the Allies captured more than 2, 000 Axis prisoners of war, mostly from the Italian Brescia ' and Pavia ' Divisions ; the New Zealand division suffered 1, 405 casualties.
The Soviet Union joined the Allies and despite heavy human and territorial losses in the initial period of war, it stopped the Axis advance in the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.
As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.
* German leadership rejected Hartenstein's cease fire proposal, partly because Admiral Raeder did not think it wise to enter into a " deal " with the Allies, nothing was to interfere with Eisbär's surprise attack on Cape Town to strike at the supplies destined for the British and Soviets, and Hitler had directed that no word of Laconias sinking or the proposed Axis rescue be transmitted to the Allies, though subordinates ignored Hitler's orders and communicated messages to the Allies about the proposed rescue attempt.
* 1944 – World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
The Soviet Union was brought into World War II and joined the Western Allies in a common front against the Axis Powers.
The war was cast as a big picture struggle-that allowing the Axis powers to have their own way would be so horrible that anything done by the Allies became justified.
In this position, she found herself privy to intelligence on Axis operations in the United States, and many time foiled agents of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy in their attempts to defeat the Allies and achieve world domination.
Each team has a set of objectives to complete, the Allies usually being to destroy some sort of Axis advantage, and the Axis objectives being to defend their object ( s ).
The opposing team then become the Allies and have to complete the objectives in a shorter time than the now Axis.
Switzerland's trade was blockaded by both the Allies and by the Axis.
It could be configured to fire either. 45 ACP ammunition, which the Thompson and M1911 pistol also fired, or the 9 mm Parabellum, widely used by Allies and Axis.
But after the fall of France, the Turkish government tried to maintain an equal distance between both the Axis and the Allies.

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`` However, evidence that the Axis powers are making significant preparations indicative of such an intention is being reported with increasing frequency from a variety of sources.
* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
The DSM does include a step (" Axis IV ") for outlining " Psychosocial and environmental factors contributing to the disorder " once someone is diagnosed with that particular disorder.
The primacy of a monotheistic or near-monotheistic " Great Goddess " is advocated by some modern matriarchists as a female version of, preceding, or analogue to, the Abrahamic God associated with the historical rise of monotheism in the Mediterranean Axis Age.
The primacy of a monotheistic or near-monotheistic " Great Goddess " is advocated by some modern matriarchists as a female version of, preceding, or analogue to, the Abrahamic God associated with the historical rise of monotheism in the Mediterranean Axis Age.
Another belief is in an Axis mundi which connects heaven and earth.
The IGF " axis " is also commonly referred to as the Growth Hormone / IGF1 Axis.
This was especially damaging to Ribbentrop, as he always assured Hitler that " Italy's attitude is determined by the Rome-Berlin Axis ".
* 1949 – Mildred Gillars (" Axis Sally ") is condemned to prison for treason.
As in the other cases, the moral equivalence device is used by those who claim that the Allied side by definition was good and the Axis was by definition evil.
Their point is to say that though the implications of an Axis victory, in particular a German victory, would be horrible, that this did not justify Allied atrocities.
Quisling (; ) is a term used in reference to fascist and collaborationist political parties and military and paramilitary forces in occupied Allied countries which collaborated with Axis occupiers in World War II, as well as for their members and other collaborators.
While the Allies ' ability to out-produce the Axis is often attributed to the Allies having more access to natural resources, other factors, such as Germany and Japan's reluctance to employ women in the labour force, Allied strategic bombing, and Germany's late shift to a war economy contributed significantly.
* October 25 – Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
The third priority is the construction of the Southern Axis of Albania ( Boshti i Jugut ) passing across the central and southern part of the country.
The importance of Thessaloniki to Nazi Germany can be demonstrated by the fact that, initially, Hitler had planned to incorporate it directly in the Third Reich ( that is, make it a part of Germany ) and not have it controlled by a puppet state such as the Hellenic State or an ally of Germany ( Thessaloniki had been promised to Yugoslavia as a reward for joining the Axis on 25 March 1941 ).
A college professor at the Spider-Friends ' university, Hiawatha Smith is the son of the heroic chief of the Native American nations that fought against the Axis during World War II.
The atlas is the topmost vertebra, and – along with the Axis – forms the joint connecting the skull and spine.
There are various other psychological issues that may factor into eating disorders, some fulfill the criteria for a separate Axis I diagnosis or a personality disorder which is coded Axis II and thus are considered comorbid to the diagnosed eating disorder.
Sometimes the Tree of Life is represented ( in a combination with similar concepts such as the World Tree and Axis mundi or " World Axis ") by a staff such as those used by shamans.

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