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Pictures of the U.S. History
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Conquest of Paradise?
• 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers American continent
• Columbus – a navigator, explorer, colonizer
• Reaches San Salvador (today
the Bahamas), not the USA.
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The Pilgrims
• Jamestown – the 1st English settlement
• The group of puritans escaping religious persecution in Britain in1620 – landing in Cape Cod area
• Plymouth established
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War of Independence
• 1773 – Boston Tea Party• Battles of Concord, Boston, Lexington, Saratoga…• Militia vs. „Red Coats“• Britain was winning at the sea while Militia were winning
inland.• Americans supported
by France
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War of Independence
Costs of the war:
• about 25000 revolutionaries died, but only about 8000 in battle. The others died due illnesses
• About 10000 – 25000 seriously wounded• More than 42000 British sailmen deserted.• Picture showing Washington
and Lafayette looking over
the troops
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Civil War
• a civil war between the United States of America (the "Union") and the slave states of the newly-formed Confederated States of America under Jefferson Davis.
• The deadliest war in US history, 620,000 soldier deaths and an undetermined number of civilian casualties
• XIIIth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery
• Lincoln assassinated in the FordTheatre
• Ku-Klux-Klan established
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Immigration waves
Owing to:
• Lack of food in Ireland
• Pogroms (persecution of Jews)
• Wars
• Economic reasons
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World War I (1914-1918)
• Zimmermann telegramm• 1917 – USA enters
the war• 1918 – the USA becomes
the winning country, getsreparations
• W.Wilson supports theestablishment of Czechoslovakia
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Great Depression
• 1929 – Black Friday
• The 1930s –Great Economic Depression
• Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the New Deal to help the US economy
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World War II
• 7 December 1941 – Pearl Harbor attacked• 8 December 1941 – The USA enters the war• Sea battles in the Pacific• Invasion to Normandy 1944• Atomic bombs thrown at
Hiroshima (6 Aug) and
Nagasaki (9 Aug)• Japan capitulataes
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Vietnam War
- Kennedy sends
Green Barrets
to Vietnam.
- Tonkin Bay
- New military
strategies but
overall failure
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Cold War
• R. Reagan helps
to end the Cold War
• He signs the Peace
Treaty with the Rus-
sians (Gorbatchev)
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The U.S. Fights Terrorism
• George W. Bush
• September 11, 2001
(World Trade Centre
destroyed)
• US troops in Afghanistan
• International campaign
against terrorism
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U.S. Presidents since the 60s
J.F. Kennedy L. Johnson R. Nixon G. Ford J. Carter
R. Reagan G. Bush, sr. W. Clinton G. W. Bush B. Obama