With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. About 140 years later, when Washington was elected, the electorate was made up of male landholders.
China was a major country during the Second World War. While China was in the Entente, it never sent troops overseas to fight in Europe, nor did it combat German colonies in the Pacific.
