By the time that the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain had been at war for more than a year. The colonies were not directly represented in Parliament, and colonists argued that Parliament had no right to levy taxes upon them.
The creation of a pan-German racial state structured according to nazi ideology to ensure the supremacy of an Aryan-Nordic master race
The Ottoman empire officially dissolved in 1923, creating the Republic of Turkey in its place.