This could be many things, but my main thought would be Churchill's first moves were against the Japanese rather than the Germans, Which allowed Hitler/Rommel to attack some of the British reserves in Africa.
But this might be different than what is in your history book, but I hope this helps <span />
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War, gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern democracy.
The french and Indian war, they went into debt after, so they taxed the colonies. The colonies rebelled because they didn’t have a say. So they protest, boycott items and has the tea act and Boston tea party, the Boston Massacre, the intolerable acts and the stamp act, which led to the American Revolution
The south improvement company in 1872 caused rockefeller able to monopolized around 90% of the oil market in North America.
The south improvement company largely increased the number of oil and railroad companies in southern states. Because of the increase in numbers, the market for oil and railroad companies became saturated. This lead many of his competitors to bankruptcy, which is why the competitors called it a conspiracy.