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"The United States
of America (2)
L' essentiel du cours
Key dates
The jirst British colony, Virginia, starts importing African slaves.
The Amërican ê/iifî War
The industrial 'Union States' in the North Led by Abraham
Lincolnfought the 'Confederate States' in the South.
The
southern states did not want to abo/ish s/avery and so
intended to secede from the United States.
ln 1862, Lincoln proclaimed the abolition of slavery.
ln 1865, The fast slaves werefreed.
Harlem Renaissance
An arti stic movemen_t_w_h_i-ch- en_c_o_u-ra_g_e_d_t_h_e_d_e-ve-·1-op_m
_ e-n-t of
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'black literature, theatre, art and music, especia/ly jazz.
The Marshall Plan
President Truman developed the Marshall Plan to help
Europe regain economic hea/th and prevent the spread of
communism: the USA gave Western European countries
signijicantjinancial aid to rebuild their economy.
The Vietnam War
The US governm_e_n_t_s-en_t_A_m
- er-ic_a_n_t_ro_o_p_s_t_o_in- tervene
in the Vietnam conflict because they feared the spread
of communism.
Although they were we/1....
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