Question 16: Political relations between the uk and the usa

Plan:

Br–Am relations widely encompass and span four centuries, beginning in 1607 with England's first permanent colony in North America called Jamestown.

1. British colonization of the Americas, and Thirteen Colonies (Sir Francis Drake)

Businessmen - The Puritans - The Quakers – Criminals

Thirteen Colonies were involved in the slave trade, slaves in New England Colonies typically worked as house servants, artisans, laborers and craftsmen.

2. The War of Independence

3. American Civil War

At the beginning the UK issued a proclamation of neutrality but the Confederate States of America attempted to provoke British intervention through cotton diplomacy , leading to failed threats of a trade embargo

4. The Great Rapprochement

5. World War I & WWII

6. Cold War

• UK found itself in virtual financial ruin whereas the US was in the midst of an economic boom.

• UK was at the mercy of American economic policy when the US abruptly terminated lend-lease at the end of WWII.

• US & UK became founding members of the United Nations in 1945 Close cooperation between US and UK resulted in the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with their European allies

• Through the US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement signed in 1958, the United States assisted the United Kingdom in their own development of a nuclear arsenal.

• 2,669 Americans and 67 Britons at the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania were victims of a terrorist plot orchestrated by the Islamic group known as al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001.

• British forces participated in the United States-led war in Afghanistan and the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

• The July 7, 2005 London bombings emphasized the difference in the nature of the terrorist threat to both nations.

Question 17: Economy of the uk

Plan:

• Currency - Pound sterling (GBP)

• Fiscal year - 6th April - 5th April

• Trade organizations - EU, BCN, OECD and WTO

• GDP - $2.674 trillion (2008 est. nom.)

• GDP by sector agriculture (1%), industry (23%), services (76%) (2008 est.)

• Inflation (CPI) - 3.2% (March 2010)

• Labour force by occupation - agriculture: 1.4%; industry: 18.2%; services: 80.4% Unemployment - 7.8% (Q4 2009)

• Main industries - machine tools, industrial equipment, scientific equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronic machinery, computers, processed metals, chemical products, coal mining, oil production, paper, food processing, textiles, clothing and other consumer goods.

• Export goods - manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco

• Import goods - manufactured goods, machinery, fuels; foodstuffs

• Gross external debt - $9.088 trillion (30 June 2009)

• Public debt - 68.5% of GDP (2009 est.)

The 1^st became highly industrialized (Industrialization of XIX century).

Reason: coal is under the surface  easy mining  the most developed industry.

North-West of England – Newcastle

Scotland – Glasgow

Wales – Cardiff, Bristol

Heavy industry

- Birmingham - heavy machinery

Is developed in the London region - Coventry  produce - railway carriages

- Sheffield - motor cars

Shipbuilding industry is - London, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, and Belfast)

Woolen industry – Yorkshire (one of the most important items of export).

Originally agricultural zones  industrial ones. Now the are 2 zones -- green (agricultural)

-- black (industrial)

The Black Country (the Midlands)

The Smoky Northwest

The Northeast