Record details

• ISBN: 9780756638306
• ISBN: 0756638305
• Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm + 1 videodisc (DVD ; 4 3/4 in.)
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Dk Pub., 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Road to War -- Great War and the Peace Treaty 10 -- Fascism and Nazism 12 -- Nazis in Power 14 -- Weakness of the Democracies 18 -- Spanish Civil War 20 -- War Begins in the East 22 -- Hitler Wins Without War 24 -- Countdown to War in Europe 26 -- Germany Triumphant -- Defeat of Poland 30 -- Phoney War 32 -- Wars in the North 34 -- Attack in the West 36 -- Britain Stands Alone 40 -- Battle of Britain and The Blitz 42 -- Voices: The Blitz 44 -- America Backs Britain 46 -- Italy Goes to War 48 -- Germans Enter the Mediterranean 50 -- Barbarossa 52 -- Massacre and Starvation 56 -- War in the Pacific -- United States Confronts Japan 60 -- Pearl Harbor 62 -- United States Goes to War 66 -- Japan's Lightening Victories 68 -- Prisoners of the Japanese 70 -- Voices: Japanese PoWs 72 -- Carrier Battles 74 -- Fight Back Begins 76 -- Suffering Asia 78 -- Turning of the Tide -- America Geared up for War 82 -- Life in Britain at War 86 -- Women at War 88 -- Allied Victory in North Africa 90 -- Fall of Mussolini 92 -- Stalingrad 94 -- Soviets Roll Back the German Tide 96 -- Victory in the Atlantic 98 -- Code Breakers and Spies 100 -- Strategic Bombing 102 -- Life Inside Nazi Europe 106 -- Holocaust 108 -- Voices: The Holocaust 110 -- Resistance Movements 114 -- PoWs in Europe 116 -- Holding the Alliance Together 118 -- Preparing to Invade France 120 -- D-Day Landings 122 -- Voices: D-Day 124 -- Burma Campaign 128 -- Island-hopping Across the Pacific 130 -- US Naval Triumph in the Pacific 132 -- End Game -- Liberation of France and Belgium 136 -- Germany Prepares to Fight to the Death 138 -- Search for the Miracle Weapon 140 -- Propaganda and Morale 142 -- Soviets Advance on Germany 144 -- Germany Holds on in the West 146 -- Invading Germany 148 -- Fall of the Dictators 150 -- War Draws Near to Japan 154 -- In Search of Final Victory 158 -- Japan Surrenders 160 -- Voices: Hiroshima 162 -- Aftermath -- Cost of War 168 -- Dealing with the Defeated 170 -- Wartime Allies Fall Out 174 -- World in Turmoil 176 -- Postwar Prosperity 178 -- Cold War 180 -- Remembering World War II 182.

Target Audience Note:

1090L Lexile

System Details Note:

System requirements for accompanying videodisc: DVD player.

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Subject:

World War, 1939-1945.