To Germany, it appeared that Britain would fall sooner or later. However, the Battle of Britain witnessed the successful defense by the Royal Air Force that protected the island against the continuous and destructive bombings and a raid by the corresponding German Luftwaffe. Earlier Poland and France had quickly fallen with the Blitzkrieg tactics.
The unsuccess in destroying the Royal Army prevented the invasion by German ground forces into English territories. The military command wanted to lay siege to Britain in order to wear it down. Since England remained strong and was unwilling to give up, it became the crucial point for Hitler's turning to the East front that previously had been avoided to prevent additional fronts to be targeted. Germany's unsuccessful attack probed that England would challenge the supremacy on air.
Many fled political and religious persecution. Others hoped to improve their condition by owning their own land or by participating in the fur trade. Some came as servants.
A basic difference between the democratic republic of Mexico and that of the United States is that in Mexico there is wide-spread corruption, which often leads to limitations on democratic rights.
The 613 commandments include "positive commandments", to perform an act (mitzvot aseh), and "negative commandments", to abstain from certain acts (mitzvot lo taaseh).
It was fought in a much larger scale, the lives loss was much greater then any other war that the time, and militaries were using new weapons and technologies