16 December 1867
Millisle, County Down, Ireland
On August 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus Started working his way to the US by boat. It took three months to reach the shore of the bahamas. Originally he was trying to sail to Asia. Eventually they settled and many other europeans came to explore and settled and also, Conquered the Americans over the course of 300 years
containment was the US' attempt to prevent the spread of communism. they implemented things such as NATO which gave the western countries a defense team against communism, the Marshall plan which helped European countries recover after ww2 which stopped them from being vulnerable enough for the communist countries to take over. (they also used military force as seen in vietnam but its not a policy)
