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