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History of England

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For what reasons, and with what consequences, has Britain sought to position itself between Europe and America in this period? To understand the relationship today between America and the UK, and this with Europe, we must first begin to understand where it all began. European hegemony of the nineteenth century was due mainly to Great Britain who was able to establish its power in global trade. At first the European countries represented a great power, new advances in new forms of trade, which emerged in Britain and later developed in the rest of the world, gave to Britain and Europe in general a place countries favoured over other economies. The increasing specialization of the British economy was clearly reflected in the rapid …show more content…

On 3 September 1939, two days after the German attack on Poland, England declared war on Germany, beginning their participation in the Second World War (1939-1945). In May 1940 he formed a coalition cabinet headed by Winston Churchill. From 1939 to 1941 the major belligerents were Britain and France on the one hand and, on the other hand, Germany and Italy, the latter since 1940. As partners under the Nazis took Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. In 1941, the Soviet Union, Japan and the United States entered the war. On May 8, 1945 Germany signed its surrender. England, the United States and the Soviet Union were the big winners. However, the war showed the decline of the British Empire and enshrined the supremacy of the United States in the economic, financial, technological and military. The consequences of World War II that occurred between 1939 and 1945 were the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the most powerful nations in the world. But political differences between the two countries soon led to a confrontation between the two countries called the Cold War. In this war both powers sought to influence the world through a war, through a threat of force, use of propaganda and military and economic aid to less developed nations. Unlike the First World War, in which the United States chose isolation, at the end of the Second World War, took

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