During the eighteenth century, Spain, France and Britain controlled land in North America. Spain controlled Florida. France was powerful in the northern and central areas. Britain controlled the east. All three nations knew they could not exist together peacefully in North America. The situation could only be settled by war.
The powerful European nations already were fighting each other for control of territory and riches all over the world. These small wars continued for more than one hundred years. They were called King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War and the French and Indian War.
The French and Indian War was fought to decide whether Britain or France would be the major power in North America. France, its colonists and their Indian allies fought against Britain, its colonists and their Indian allies.
The war began with conflicts over land.
Amherst was successful. The British defeated the French. They changed the name of Fort Carillon to Fort Ticonderoga. It became an important military center in the French and Indian War. Fort Ticonderoga would also become important later, during America's war for independence.
The Battle for Quebec was the turning point in the conflict. Britain and France signed a treaty to end the war in seventeen sixty-three. The British had won. They took control of the lands that had been claimed by France.
They had to pay for the repairs after the war and they had a limit placed on their military
Read this from my History book: Russia is mostly Orthodox Christian and western Europe is Catholic. Russia once was ruled by czars, western Europe never had czars. Western Europe is ruled by <span>democratic republics but Russia was ruled by communism.</span>
The Monroe Doctrine was a policy that had its origin in the US in 1832, with the aim of fighting against European colonism in American lands. The US defined that they would not intervene in existing colonies but that they would consider any new movement (invasion or annexion) perpetrated by Europeans in America as an offence to the US.
President McKingley decided the intervention of the US in the conflict between Spain and Cuba, in which the latter was fighting for independence. In fact, since his decision the conflict was namd the Spanish-American war, as the US took the side of Cuba against the Spanish to end this share of European colonialism.
At first, the US stood apart of the conflict, but the sensacionalist news that arrived to the US showed how the Spanish were commiting atrocities against Cuban civilians. The US public opinion supported the intervention. Finally, the incident of the Maine, the US ship in Havana, whose explosion was attributed to the Spanish, was considered as a direct offence and triggered the arrival of US troops to Cuba. The Monroe doctrine supported interventions when the US was directly offended.
