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The British Army during the American Revolutionary War served for eight years in campaigns fought around the globe. Defeat at the Siege of Yorktown to a combined Franco-US force ultimately led to the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in eastern North America, and the concluding Treaty of Paris deprived Britain of many of the gains achieved in the Seven Years' War. However several victories elsewhere meant that much of the British Empire remained intact.
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Soldiers returning from World War I brought back disease to the United States, most notably causing the deadly Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918. An H1N1 virus, the Spanish Flu resulted in upwards of 50 million deaths worldwide, around 700,000 of which were US citizens. The flu's deadly impact and its global spread existed as a negative byproduct of the growing interconnectedness of world affairs. With more and more individuals interacting with each other around the globe (be it due to war, trade, or travel), the contraction and spread of diseases became a much larger problem than in earlier periods of isolation.
D. was not elected to either the presidency or the vice-presidency
Explanation: Spanish successes in the Caribbean attracted the attention of other European nations. Like Spain, France was a Catholic nation and committed to expanding Catholicism around the globe. In the early sixteenth century, it joined the race to explore the New World and exploit the resources of the Western Hemisphere.
In 1534, navigator Jacques Cartier claimed northern North America for France, naming the area around the St. Lawrence River New France. Like many other explorers, Cartier made exaggerated claims about the area’s mineral wealth and was unable to send great riches back to France or establish a permanent colony.
