What is an anvil ? what does con billow mean when he says germany will be "a hammer"

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Revolutionary war. date battle result april 19, 1775 june 17, 1775 dec. 31, 1775 aug. 27, 1776 oct. 26, 1776 dec. 26, 1776 sept. 11, 1777 sept. 19, 1777 oct. 4, 1777 oct. 7, 1777 dec. 5, 1777 june 8, 1778 sept. 16, 1779 march 29, 1780 sept. 28, 1781 can i get the name of the battles and the result on the battles on the dates above

How did the grooms national product (gnp) of the united states change between 1940 and 1944