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Why did the German-led invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 fall short?
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American Civil War
Union soldiers wrecking railroad lines (making “Sherman's neckties”), Atlanta.
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Smoke rising from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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