HISTORIC PLACE IN THE USA

U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Honolulu, Hawai

Still remember the tragedy of December 7, 1941 ? The date it was an important moment in the history of the United States, where the Japanese had destroyed Pearl Harbor.


Gettysburg Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg National Military park is the silent witness to the massacre that happened in 1863.


National Historical Parks independence Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Other historical places in Pennsylvania is the Philadelphia National Park History independence. Inside was Independence Hall Assembly Room, Continental Congress meeting, the appointment of George Washington by order of the Continental Army, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution drafing.


Missions Trail

California Missions Trail in there. Desert road located between San Diego and Sonoma is used (from the 18^th century and 21) was used to begin a series Spanyol their mission in California. Current El Camino Real (another term Missions Trail) is replaced by the more modern California highway.

Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama

In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the Confederate States of America (CSA)

in this building. A century later (1965) Selma gets the most votes in the same place.

Santa Fe Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Historically, this is where General Stephen Watts Kearny U.S. flag to claim the territory during the Mexican War in 1846.

Tombstone, Arizona

In the past a lot of violence and debauchery that took place in the Old West this place. In fact, almost every time the sound of gunfire was heard in Tombstone, Arizona.

Freedom Trail

In Boston, Massachusetts there is the old colonial sites, the Freedom Trail. There can visit places such as the Old North Church, the Old State House, the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.

U.S. HISTORY 1980-1991

The history of the United States (1980-1991) includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first two years of the George H.W.Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan was the 40^th President of the United States. Born in Illinois in 1911. 

Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall in 1987, shortly before the end of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan produced a major realignment with his 1980 and 1984 landslide elections. Regan’s economic policies ( dubbed “Reaganomic” ) and the implementation of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 lowered income taxes from 70% to 28% over the course of seven years. Reagan continued to downsize government taxation and regulation.

Reagan ordered a buildup of the U.S. military, incurring additional budget deficits. Reagan introduced a complicated missile defense system known as the Strategic Defense Initiative ( dubbed “Star Wars“ by opponents ) in which, theoretically, the U.S. could shoot down missiles with laser systems in space.

Reagan’s rollback policy of weakening Communist states in critical regions involved covert funding and assistance to anti-Communist resistance movements worldwide. Reagan’s interventions against Grenada and Libya were popular in the U.S. , though his backing of the Contra rebels was mired in the controversy over the Iran-Contra affair that revealed Reagan’s poor management style.

Reagan met four times with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ascended to power in 1985, and their summit conferences led to the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Gorbachev tried to save Communism in the Soviet Union first by ending the expensive arms race with America, the by shedding the East European empire in 1989. The United States emerged as the world’s sole remaining superpower and continued to intervene in international affairs during the 1990s , including the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. 

The child and his mother

A curious child asked his mother : “Mommy, why are some of your hairs turning white?”

The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child : “It is because of you. dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs white!”

The child replied innocently : “Now I know why grandmother has only white hairs on her head.”

Title : The Child and His Mother

Orientation :

Who : the child and his mother

When : at noon , when a child is curious

Where : at home

Events :

*  The child asked  his mother : "Why are some of your hairs turning white ?"

*  The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child

*  His mother answered :

    “It is because of you. dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hair white!" 

Twist :

*  The child answered : “Now I know why grandmother has only white hairs on her head.”

Cold War

The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The primary American goal of 1945-1948 was to rescue Europe from the devastation of World War II and to contain the expansion of Communism, represented by the Soviet Union. The Truman Doctrine of 1947 provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey to counteract the threat of Communist expansion in the Balkans. In 1948, the United States replaced piecemeal financial aid programs with a comprehensive Marshall Plan, which pumped money into the economy of Western Europe, and removed trade barriers, while modernizing the managerial practices of businesses and governments.

In August 1949 the Soviets tested their first nuclear weapon, there by escalating the risk of warfare. Indeed, the threat of mutually assured destruction prevented both powers from going too far, and resulted in proxy wars, especially in Korea and Vietnam, in which the two sides did not directly confront each other.

In the decades after World War II, the United States became a global influence in economic, political, military, cultural, and technological affairs. Beginning in the 1950s, middle-class culture became obsessed with consumer goods.

In the 1980s, the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when the communist state was already suffering from economic stagnation. In the mid 1980s, the new Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika and glasnost. Pressures for national independence grew stronger in Eastern Europe, especially Poland. They reached a breaking point when Gorbachev refused to use Soviet troops to support the faltering government of East Germany in late 1989. Within weeks all the satellite states broke free from Moscow in a peaceful wave of revolutions. The pressures escalated inside the Soviet Union, where Communism fell and the USSR was formally dissolved in late 1991. The United States remained as the world’s only superpower.

Worl War II

World War II , also known as the Second World War, was a global war that was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units. During the war over 16 million Americans served in the United States military, with 290,000 killed in action and 670,000 wounded.Japan tried to neutralize America's power in the Pacific by attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which catalyzed American support to enter the war and seek revenge. During the first 2 years of the global conflict, the United States had maintained formal neutrality, while supplying Britain, the Soviet Union and China with war material through Lend-Lease, as well as deploying the US military to replace the British invasion forces in Iceland. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 75 million fatalities. These deaths make World War II by far the deadliest conflict in human history.

The world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and Britain. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany formed the Axis alliance with Italy, conquering or subduing much of continental Europe. Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories between themselves of their European neighbours, including Poland. The United Kingdom and the other members of the British Commonwealth were the only major Allied forces continuing the fight against the Axis, with battles taking place in North Africa as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic.

In December 1941, Japan joined the Axis, attacked the United States and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Italy, and American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts.


In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the United States defeated the Japanese Navy and captured key Western Pacific Islands.

The war in Europe finished in May 1945 when the Russians sacked Berlin and the Germans surrended. The US, British and French troops, along with their other allies, and the Soviets, took the surrender jointly. The War in the Pacific ended in August 1945 following the US Atomic bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki earlier that month. The Japanese were already sueing for peace prior to the Atomic bombs being dropped. The Japanese surrended formerly on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay with the US, Britain and Australia at the signing ceremony.