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Why Would A Dog Need A Parachute? Questions and answers about the Second World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums
Why Would A Dog Need A Parachute? Questions and answers about the Second World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums
Why Would A Dog Need A Parachute? Questions and answers about the Second World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums
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Why did the Second World War start? Who had the best weapons? Why were there no bananas? What was Shanks's pony? Why was food rationed? Could you still buy sweets? Why were spies important? Why should you keep ‘mum’? Why did it go on so long? How did it end? Find out the answers to these and a lot of other exciting questions in this brilliantly informative book which will tell you everything you ever needed to know about World War II.

The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 to collect and display material relating to the ‘Great War’, which was still being fought. Today IWM is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present. They seek to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and wartime experience.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateJul 3, 2014
ISBN9781447248002
Why Would A Dog Need A Parachute? Questions and answers about the Second World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums
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Jo Foster

Jo Foster has always liked finding things out and writing about them, so was delighted to find out that this could be a job. After studying history at Cambridge University, Jo worked in TV history documentaries for several years. She has also written a series of books called History Spies, showing time-travelling kids how to blend in wherever and whenever they find themselves, and Why Would A Dog Need A Parachute? Questions and answers about the Second World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums.

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    Why Would A Dog Need A Parachute? Questions and answers about the Second World War - Jo Foster

    For Dan and Nat, with love

    Contents

    How did the war start?

    Did Britain and France try to stop Hitler in other ways first?

    How were Fascism and Communism different to Democracy?

    How did Hitler persuade the German people that he should be in charge?

    So what happened next?

    Who else was on our side?

    Who was the enemy?

    What did the Nazis believe?

    Why did Nazis think Aryans were the best?

    What was the Holocaust?

    What sorts of people fought in the war?

    What did recruits from the Empire do in the war?

    How old were the people who fought?

    How old was the youngest Britain in uniform to die during the war?

    So how did the Germans find more soldiers?

    Could women fight as well?

    Was it dangerous for women who worked to support the war effort?

    Where did the fighting happen?

    Where else was the war fought if not on land?

    What was it like to fly a fighter plane?

    What kinds of planes did British pilots fly?

    What was it like inside the cockpit of a British fighter?

    Where did soldiers go to the loo?

    So . . . where did soldiers go to the loo in a tank or during battle?

    What did the different sides wear?

    Second World War uniforms

    What did British soldiers wear?

    What were the British uniforms made of?

    What about other services? Did they all have the same uniforms?

    How often did soldiers get to go home?

    What was ‘compassionate leave’?

    What happened to people who were caught by the enemy?

    What about POW camps in Germany?

    What was the Geneva Convention?

    How did commanders tell everyone what to do?

    How did people communicate without the Internet or mobiles?

    How else did people send messages?

    Was there any way of sending a message without wires?

    What about TV? Had that been invented yet?

    Animals? I’m pretty sure they didn’t have talking animals back then. How could animals pass on messages?

    How were dogs better messengers than people?

    Why would a dog need a parachute?

    Did any other animals use parachutes too?

    What else did animals do? You’re not going to tell me they fought in the war too?

    How else did animals serve their countries?

    Who had the best weapons?

    What other sorts of new weapons were invented?

    What was the ‘Big Week’ campaign?

    What was the deadliest weapon of all?

    Which country invented the atomic bomb first?

    What was ‘Little Boy’?

    What was the Home Front?

    What was the Blitz?

    How did the Blitz begin?

    The Trouble with Bombs

    What was it like to live through the Blitz?

    What else did people do to stay safe during the Blitz?

    How many people can you fit in an air-raid shelter?

    Inside an Anderson shelter

    Inside a Morrison shelter

    What was the Blitz Spirit?

    How many elephants could you fit in an air-raid shelter?

    What other places or organizations needed protection from air raids?

    What did people eat in wartime?

    Why wasn’t there enough food?

    What about basic stuff, like onions? There must have been enough of those to go round?

    So what could you eat instead?

    Eating your pets! Yuck! What other meat did people eat?

    Could you still buy sweets?

    Were any good new sweets invented using rationed ingredients?

    Where was the ‘Black Market’?

    What was the ‘National Loaf’ – and was there enough for everyone?

    Was everyone skinny during the war?

    Was it hard to buy other things, apart from food?

    What was Shanks’ Pony?

    What about riding a bike?

    What was the war like for children?

    Why did evacuees have to wear labels?

    Were all children evacuated?

    What did wartime kids do for fun?

    That sounds scary! What else did wartime kids get up to?

    What did spies do in the war?

    So how did spies find out what the enemy was doing?

    Who invented radar technology?

    How else did the British try and hide the invention of radar?

    How did spies crack secret codes?

    What was the Enigma code?

    How did the British crack the Enigma code?

    How did the codebreakers speed up their sums?

    How else could you stop the enemy listening in?

    What’s a double agent?

    What kinds of things did double agent Eddie Chapman do?

    Who were the Magic Gang?

    Who won the war?

    How did other Allied countries celebrate?

    When did the Allies know they were winning?

    So what changed?

    What battles did the Allies win that made winning the war possible?

    What did the winners do to the losers?

    So were the Germans and Japanese punished after all?

    So what did the Allies do instead?

    How did the war change Great Britain?

    What can you still see from the Second World War today?

    What else might you find from the war?

    How do I find out more?

    Other museums

    Websites

    Books

    Glossary

    Alphabetical index of main topics

    Acknowledgements

    Picture credits

    About the Author

    Also in this series

    How did the war start?

    All over Britain, at just before 11:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning, people tuned in their radios to hear the Prime Minister say: ‘This country is at war with Germany.’ It was 3 September 1939, and the Second World War had begun.

    But of course, the PM hadn’t just woken up that morning and decided to start a war. That’s not how these things work. The war wasn’t a huge surprise; most of the people listening to their radios would have been expecting it. In the Prime Minister’s speech, he also said how sad he was that there had to be a war, and how he had tried everything to avoid it. But Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany, would do anything to get his way and the only way to stop him was to fight back.

    Adolf Hitler had been making trouble for years. First Hitler increased the size of his army, and then he started to occupy other countries in Europe. In 1938 he marched his soldiers into Austria and announced that it was now part of Germany – and he didn’t plan to stop there. Britain and France, the other two most powerful countries in Europe, saw that Hitler was getting greedy for other countries’ land, but they weren’t sure what to do about it.

    Before TVs were commonplace, most people received their news from listening to the ‘wireless’ or radio.

    Did Britain and France try to stop Hitler in other ways first?

    Yes. They tried asking Hitler diplomatically to stop, even agreeing to let him occupy just part of the next country on his list, Czechoslovakia. After all, neither Britain nor France had much spare money for paying soldiers or buying guns, and as it was only twenty years since the end of the devastating First World War they were desperate to avoid another fight.

    But asking nicely didn’t work. Hitler broke his promise, and went ahead and invaded the whole of Czechoslovakia. Next on the list was Poland. Britain and France realized they had to get tough, and promised Poland that

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