The Soviet pushed into Poland, forcing a mass German retreat. The US, Britain, and Canada invaded Normandy in 1944, driving past the Rhine in 1945. Both sides, Soviet and Democratic, encircled Berlin, and the Soviets took Berlin. Then, to prevent from a very costly invasion of the Japanese homeland, the United States atomic bombed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which forced a Japanese surrender.
A gold certificate is considered to be a representative money.
A disease-ridden, bug-infested swamp with bad water: what a place to found a colony! But there were advantages as well to what was chosen as the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
To learn more about each reason contributing to the selection of Jamestown in 1607, click on the title next to each of the six images below.
Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and Mohism all began during the Zhou Dynasty in the 6th century BCE, and had very strong influences on Chinese civilization.
