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Diplomatic relations Documentary films Japan Foreign relations United States Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Juvenile literature United States United States Foreign relations Japan War Causes World War, 1939-1945 Causes World War, 1939-1945 Causes Juvenile literatureO'Keefe, Emily
Contents: Fast facts -- A visit to Bosnia -- The Archduke and the Emporer -- The Black Hand -- The assassination -- The First World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 OKEO'Brien, Bridget
Summary: "On Febuary 24, 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin announce that Russia would perform a special military operation in neighboring Ukraine. Within minutes Russian troops had invaded Ukraine and missles were flying. The world watched as the political, economic, and humanitarian fallout ensued. This series examines the war, the circumstances that led to it, and influential individals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PUTFavreau, Marc
Summary: "The attack on Pearl Harbor unfolds through the actions and perspectives of American, Japanese, and Hawaiian leaders, soldiers, sailors, nurses, and civilians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 FAVSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: "Pearl Harbor features real stories of that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American Girl Nanea Mitchell shares her own experiences adjusting to the drastic changes to everyday life in Hawaii following the attack"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SWASutherland, Jonathan
Summary: The North and South sections of the United States developed along very different lines. The South s economy remained predominantly agricultural, while the North s evolved as a powerhouse of industry. Over time, different social cultures, attitudes, economics, and politics developed, resulting in simmering tensions. However, the final catalyst for conflict, ultimately leading to war, was over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SUTSummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYPaley, Rebecca
Summary: Recounts life in early colonial America leading up to the famous tea tax protest that pushed the colonies and the British closer to war, using the stories of Felicity Merriman and how she became caught in between the two sides of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: "CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic AllisonLongerich, Peter
Summary: On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. The exquisite position by the lake, the imposing driveway up to the villa, culminating in a generously sized roundabout in front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LONMatthews, Owen
Summary: "The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War--and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime--and Russia itself--at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years' experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mudlark 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MATZabin, Serena R.
Summary: The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ZABCesarani, David
Summary: "A new one-volume history of the Nazi mass murder and persecution of the Jews by a noted historian that incorporates the material from newly-opened archives and research on the Nazi era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CESBritton, Tamara L.
Summary: This title examines the war in Ukraine including the Russian Federation's recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics on February 21, 2022, Russia's subsequent invasion of Ukraine three days later, international reaction to the invasion including economic and political sanctions, and the resulting humanitarian crisis. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, An imprint of Abdo Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 947.708 BRIRice, Earle.
Summary: Discusses the people and events involved in Japan's decision to attack on Pearl Harbor, which forced the United States to enter World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.54 RICHasday, Judy L.
Summary: Chronicles the events leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the details of the attack itself, and the ensuing reaction of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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Summary: Shares coverage of the events surrounding the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, offering insight into the devastation that sank four battleships and killed more than two thousand servicemen before propelling the United States into World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 DEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What DemuthSummary: Propaganda series originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video Corp. 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORChurchill, Winston
Summary: Studies the events from 1919-1939, stressing the allied errors that led to World War II and analyzes the first months of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUSummary: Propaganda series originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video Corp. 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORSummary: In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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Summary: "By early December 1941, war and genocide had changed Europe beyond recognition. Nazi Germany had occupied most of the continent and opened concentration camps, while millions of soldiers had died on the front. In Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned mainland China into a battleground and the Pacific Islands into an armed camp. Still, these far-off conflicts were not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SIMElson, Robert T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1976