History of Britain and the usa

More key themes in the history of the United States

• Indians
• Immigrants
• Industrial growth - a (reluctant?) world power.
• World War One - getting involved in Europe.
• Wilson and Versailles. Retreat into isolation
• Prohibition and gangsters

Even more key themes in the history of the United States

• Wall Street crash, dustbowl, hungry thirties, New Deal
• World War Two
• Playing a world role. NATO, Truman doctrine, Marshall aid, ...
• Cold War, Korea
• Civil rights, assassinations
• Vietnam

The United States today

• Nixon and Watergate
• America in retreat
• Reagan: "America is back"
• The Clinton years
• 9/11 George W. Bush
• Contemporary issues ...

British History 1 Britain until the Norman invasion

• The people(s) of Britain.
• England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
• Forging the nation (England ...)
• Neolithic England, Iron Age England, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans.

A timeline - from the beginning up to Roman Britain

• 5000-2500 BC Neolithic Britain
• 2500-1600 BC Bronze Age
• 2200 BC - 1300 BC Stonehenge
• 1600 BC-43 AD Iron Age
• (800 BC —> immigration of Celts)
• 55 BC Julius Caesar
• 43 AD Roman invasion

Stonehenge

Maiden Castle - an Iron Age hill Fort, built by the Celts

Maiden Castle - a hill Fort

The Battersea Shield, 1st century BC)

The Roman invasion

• British Celts were aiding the Celts of Gaul against the Romans. The Romans responded by invading Britain. Britain also had good farmland.
• The Romans had relatively little difficulty conquering the Celts - better army; Celts divided
• However Boudicca's revolt (Iceni) (aka Boadicea) (61 AD)

Roman Britain

• Roman lifestyle attractive
• "Villas"
• Hadrian's Wall (c. 100 AD)
• Roman Empire weakening in 4th century
• Troops out 409. Romano-British alone.
• Language: place names (Chester etc, )
• Roman roads