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Pictures of the U.S. History
Conquest of Paradise?
• 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers American continent
• Columbus – a navigator, explorer, colonizer
• Reaches San Salvador (today
the Bahamas), not the USA.
The Pilgrims
• Jamestown – the 1st English settlement
• The group of puritans escaping religious persecution in Britain in1620 – landing in Cape Cod area
• Plymouth established
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
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
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
Immigration waves
Owing to:
• Lack of food in Ireland
• Pogroms (persecution of Jews)
• Wars
• Economic reasons
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
Great Depression
• 1929 – Black Friday
• The 1930s –Great Economic Depression
• Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the New Deal to help the US economy
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
Vietnam War
- Kennedy sends
Green Barrets
to Vietnam.
- Tonkin Bay
- New military
strategies but
overall failure
Cold War
• R. Reagan helps
to end the Cold War
• He signs the Peace
Treaty with the Rus-
sians (Gorbatchev)
The U.S. Fights Terrorism
• George W. Bush
• September 11, 2001
(World Trade Centre
destroyed)
• US troops in Afghanistan
• International campaign
against terrorism
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