Revoloution
1.
februar 2016
12:28
- There were 13 colonies by the time of the french and indian war.
- The slogan was ''Taxation without representation''.
- It started in lexington.
- In the congress of Philadelphia they declared independence on July 4th, 1776.
Slavery and the
civil war
- As early as 1619 the first african slaves arrived in the New World.
- In 1807 the US made importation of new slaves illegal.
- Abraham Lincoln became a president in 1860.
- It led to that South Carolina left the union and was followed by 10 other states.
- That the slaves were free.
The USA in WWI and
WWII
- He practiced a policy called isolationism.
- The americans declared war on germany because of that an american boat was attacked.
- The league nations was formed to secure peace.
- The US declared war on December 11, 1941.
- Harry S. Truman felt that he had no choice other than drop two atomic bombs.
- Women entered workplaces where men used to work, because the men went to war.
- Because the US and USSR used to work together to fight of the nazis. But now they suddenly competed in space and other things.
- The first country to be in space was the Russians.
- Neil Armstrong was the man who said those words.
- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were the key persons to end the nuclear race.
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