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Article: Video game lets pupils alter history
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- International Herald Tribune
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- May 28, 2004
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Chris Larson
International Herald Tribune
05-28-2004
It is the 1930s, and you have just been elected president of France on a promise to rebuild the economy. But you learn that Germany is rapidly building its army, and your advisers are urging you to do the same. What will happen if you break your campaign pledge and divert resources and attention to building up the French military? Or you are the British prime minister in 1938. Diplomats in Munich have reached a deal: Germany will be allowed to annex the Sudetenland; it promises that its expansion will go no further. What will the consequences be if you refuse to sign the agreement? History is filled with such what-ifs, and a company ...