Napoleon's Continental System was designed to destroy the British economy completely by blocking any trades from allies to Britain and even the neutral countries. Britian counter blocked and resulted in the Anglo-American War of 1812.
On June 17, 1940, The defeated French signed an armistice and quit WW II, leaving Britain standing alone against Germany. In the Summer and fall of that year, German and British forces clashed in the skies over Britain in the first all-air battle in history.
A significant turning point in WW II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany's Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force . Britain's decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion from the enemy and proved air power alone could also be used to win a major battle.
1/3 of the people in the south are black. Nobody can deny this and be successful.
(That’s kind of blunt, but it gets the point across.)
The great depression was the worst downturn in the history lasting from 1929-1939. It started in 1929 when the stock market crashed which sent wall street into panic, there are several other factors that caused the great depression:1)- Crash of stock market2)- Failure of many banks.3)- Poor banking policies by Federal Reserve. (Instead of lowering interest rate as economy slumped, they raised the interest rate.4)- Federal government also passed a high protective tariff.5)- unequal distribution of income.At first, government believed that the economy would correct itself,leading to no government action dealing with crisis. By the time government acted the depression was so severe that their efforts were not enough to recover the decline.
