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Party 
and 
Other 
Stories
(1922), Mansfield (who went to England at age 19) revolutionized the short story by 
rejecting the mechanisms of plot in favour of an impressionistic sense of the flow of experience, 
punctuated by an arresting moment of insight. In 
Postures
(1928, reprinted as 
Quartet
in 
1969), 
Voyage in the Dark
(1934), and 
Good Morning, Midnight
(1939), Rhys depicted the lives 
of vulnerable women adrift in London and Paris, vulnerable because they were poor and because 
the words in which they innocently believed—honesty in relationships, fidelity in marriage—
proved in practice to be empty. 
In 1933, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, was appointed chancellor of Germany. He 
immediately began to prepare for war, rearming the country, engaging in aggressive foreign policy, 
and establishing dictatorial powers for himself. German rearmament and aggression were in 
violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which Germany had signed at the end of World War I, and 
which the Nazi Party repudiated. Even after Hitler annexed Austria and invaded Czechoslovakia in 
1938, attempts were made by other European powers to placate him. When Hitler invaded Poland 
in 1939, however, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. The war of the Axis powers 
(Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) against the Allied powers (Great Britain 
and its allies, France, China, Denmark, Greece, Norway, and Yugoslavia) had begun. 
The Soviet Union, initially at uneasy peace with Germany, went to war against Germany 
when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Japan, having gone to war against China in 1936, 

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joined the Axis in 1940 and attacked the United States in 1941. The United States thereupon 
entered the war in 1941 on the Allied side, declaring war on Japan, Germany, and Italy. 
World War II was truly a world war, with nations around the world involved in theaters of 
war around the world. World War II was also a total war; all targets, military and civilian, were 
considered legitimate, and all means of war, including the bombing of cities, were employed. Total 
warfare meant that entire societies were affected. The war was global; few people on the planet 
were completely unaffected. Some of history’s most terrible atrocities took place during World War 
II, including the Holocaust (the systematic murder of approximately ten million civilians that the 
Nazis considered unworthy of life) which claimed the lives of approximately six million Jews. 
World War II ended with the defeat of Italy in April, 1945, of Germany in May, and of Japan in 
August. The United States hastened the surrender of Japan with the first use in history of atomic 
weapons; this act also may be said to be a symbol of the rise of United States to the level of the 
world’s preeminent power as a result of World War II. The Allies, victorious, made arrangements 
of territory and political alliance that deeply affected the world thereafter. 

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