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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> The Battle of Britain includes the following topics:<\/p>\n Who were isolationists before WWII? Chapter 2: Pearl Harbor<\/strong><\/p>\n Americans know Britain is important to defeating Hitler\u2019s powerful army. Britain practices democratic ideals as dark, totalitarian governments spread across the globe, promising easy answers to hard problems. But few Americans want to see American soldiers cross the oceans to stop those fascist governments. Americans don\u2019t want to repeat the high cost of World War I\u2019s fight in Europe. The trouble is, war clouds are now rising from Asia …<\/p>\n Pearl Harbor includes the following topics:<\/p>\n Where did the Japanese attack? Chapter 3: Determined D-Day<\/strong> Determined D-Day includes the following topics:<\/p>\n When was the first World War II landing in France? Chapter 4: The Pacific Island Hop<\/strong> The Pacific Island Hop includes the following:<\/p>\n Who did the World War II island hop? <\/a><\/p>\n Chester spans the globe to tell the story of World War 2 and the struggle of democratic nations against fascist nations trying to supply easy answers at the end of a gun. From the invasion of Poland to the atomic … Continue reading
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\nChapter 1: The Battle Of Britain<\/strong>
\nBad economic times spread across many nations in the 1930s. Adolph Hitler rises to power in Germany by convincing Germans that Jewish people are to blame for Germany\u2019s problems. Then Hitler builds an army that sneaks around the rules placed on Germany\u2019s weapons after World War I. His fascist government keeps the German people focused and energized by using that new army to invade neighboring lands . . .<\/p>\n
\nHow did World War II begin?
\nWho said Britain wouldn\u2019t yield?
\nWhen was the Battle of Britain?
\nHow did radar help Britain?
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\nWhat happened December 7, 1941?
\nHow badly was Pearl Harbor hit?
\nDid the Japanese attack California?<\/p>\n
\n1942 marks the greatest expansion of Adolph Hitler\u2019s fascist empire. (Fascism is a political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied.) Nazi troops control almost all of Europe and are pushing east into Russia towards valuable oil fields. Japan controls much of the Pacific Rim along Asia. The democratic Allies decide they must attack Hitler in Europe before they focus on fighting Japan. That means there will have to be an invasion onto the continent of Europe somewhere …<\/p>\n
\nWhere did the Allies practice invasions?
\nWhy was D-Day launched on June 6, 1944?
\nWhat happened on the D-Day beaches?
\nWho won the battle for Normandy?<\/p>\n
\nWorld War II in Europe is a classic kind of battle: big armies moving across fields and rivers. The war against Japan in the Pacific Ocean is very different. Here the Allies must fight on tiny, rocky islands where the Japanese have prepared fierce defenses. Naval and air power are more important than tanks here. But Americans are determined to travel island to island until they get to the ultimate island fortress: Japan itself!<\/p>\n
\nWhy did the U.S. hop islands in World War II?
\nWho returned to the Philippines?
\nWhy were Iwo Jima and Okinawa vital?
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