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The history of the united states.
The US had a very long intense story. Since 1492, when the America was discovered, it changed the world in many ways. At the beginning of his discovery brought about changes due to the great resources that could be encountered on the site, subsequently it was the land of the various emigrants in search of a better future, and finally it affirmed itself as world power.
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1877-2011
I have created an interactive timeline demonstrating what I have learned in my US History course. The Timeline will be about US History in the years between 1877-2011. -
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Immigration
The united states have been subject to immigration for many years. Especially in the period of strong immigration many citizens of other countries have gone to occupy American territories and form the United States of America as we know them today. A country built thanks to immigrants that is characterized by the diversity of cultures and thoughts. -
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Labor in the US
The United States was a country characterized and developed on primary jobs such as agriculture, breeding and hunting. With the colonization, important metal processing industries began to emerge, and a major role was played by trade.
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REASONS FOR IMPERIALISM (COLONIAL EXPANSION)
THE NEED FOR RAW MATERIALS AND MARKETS – Colonies could provide needed raw materials for factories, guaranteed markets, and places for farmers to sell their surplus crops.
STRATEGIC REASONS – Colonies would promote American naval strength. America could have a more powerful navy with bases throughout the world. [https://www.reference.com/history/were-causes-american-imperialism-7d19ab01b5b4391?qo=contentSimilarQuestions] -
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IMPERIAL TERRITORIES
After the Spanish-American War, the U.S. acquired a colonial empire consisting of the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Midway in the Pacific and Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone in the Caribbean. [https://talktank.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-first-american-empire-and-imperialism/] -
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Modulo 4: The First World War
The war began in 1914 but America did not enter the conflict until 1917. The incident that changed everything was the sinking of the Lusitania. [http://www.ushistory.org/us/45a.asp] -
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Modulo 4: League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland , created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/league] -
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Modulo 5: The Harlem Renaissance
Challenging the paternalistic and racist attitudes of whites, African American artists and intellectuals refused to mimic the style of Europeans and whites of America, but exalted their dignity and black creativity, claiming their freedom to express themselves in their own way, Examined their identity as black Americans, celebrating the black culture that had emerged from slavery and their cultural ties with Africa. [http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance] -
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Modulo 5: Great Dpression
In 1929, the Stock Exchange collapsed, giving way to the Great Depression. The stock market went down to 0 and the United States entered a period of extreme crisis. -
Pearl Harbor, starting of the WWII for the US
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of Day of Infamy, and this makes us understand how it was that day. The operation was carried out in the absence of the Japanese declaration of war, which was formalized only to an attack initiated, and provoked the entry into World War II of the United States where public opinion developed a strong feeling of reproach and hatred Towards Japan.
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What was the importance of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in this era?
Roosevelt and his commanders decided that despite the Japanese aggression in the Pacific, the main objective of the war remained the defeat of Germany, considered the most dangerous and powerful enemy. He led the United States from isolationism to victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II.
His wartime efforts prepared the path for his successor (Truman) to win the war against Japan after his death.
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Bipolar world: The Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed.
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A New Civil Rights Movement
In 1950, the United States operated under an apartheid-like system of legislated white supremacy.
Although the Civil War did bring an official end to slavery in the United States, it did not erase the social barriers built by that "PECULIAR INSTITUTION."
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
On a cold December evening in 1955, ROSA PARKS quietly incited a revolution — by just sitting down.
She was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row — the first row of the "COLORED SECTION."
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Life in the 80's.
The 1980s were important in terms of innovations and prosperity for the United States.
In the 80's the United States Republican candidate Ronald Reagan wins the presidential election, and there were very many events, one of them was in Geneva where the negotiations between the US and the USSR to control and reduce strategic missiles begin.
[http://www.ushistory.org/us/59d.asp] -
President Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was a US politician and actress, 40th president of the United States of America, in office from 1981 to 1989. Thank to him started Reagan's doctrine that claims was that the United States had the moral duty to counteract Communism in every part of the world, also supporting those peoples who were fighting against Russians in those years.[http://www.ushistory.org/us/59.asp] -
Operation Desert Storm.
The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. Alarmed by these actions, other Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt have invited the United States and other Western nations to intervene.
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The globalization.
Globalization refers to the free movement of goods, services, people, technology and information. It is the action or procedure of international integration of countries arising from the convergence of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. It's not is not the same as Americanization. The most crucial aspect is the psychological transformation that's affecting people everywhere.
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President Clinton.
Bill Clinton is a US politician, 42nd President of the United States of America, in office from 1993 to 2001. Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, which obliged entrepreneurs to grant employees unpaid expectancy for pregnancy or medical problems. Following his presidency, Clinton remained active in public life.
[http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/bill-clinton]
