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▪ The importance of the British monarchy can be seen in its effect on advising the government.
▪ As a revising chamber, the House of Lords is expected to complement the House of Commons.
▪ In Britain, the parliamentary general election is held every five years.
▪ Generally speaking, the British Parliament operates on a two-party system.
▪ The policies of the Conservative Party are characterized by pragmatism and a belief in individualism.
austin mahone▪ The United States has 48 states on the continent.
▪ The state of Alaska is the largest in area of all the states.
▪ The Vietnam War was a long-time suffering for Americans, and it continued throughout the terms of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.
▪ The U.S. Constitution came into effect in 1789.
▪ The Constitution of the United States tries to give each branch enough power to balance the others.
▪ The terms of a Senator and Representative are six and two years respectively.
▪ The Supreme Court is composed of eight justices.
▪ The first National Bank of the United States was established with the urge of Alexander Hamilton
无懈可击 顾峰▪ Higher education in the United States began with the founding of Harvard University.
▪ The New Deal was started by Franklin Roosevelt.
▪ The general election in America is held every four years.
相亲相爱一家人▪ The symbol of the US Democratic Party is donkey.
▪ The following states are among the first thirteen colonies except Colorado.
▪ The first American President from the Republic Party is Abraham Lincoln.
▪ Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1859.
▪ Florence Nightingale was a famous nurse who organized the care of soldiers wounded in the Crimean War
▪ In 1934, a fully government-funded unemployment benefit system was, for the first time, paid out according to need rather than contribution.
▪ World War II was finally over in 1945with the victory of the allies.
▪ In 1997, Tony Blair became Prime Minister in a landslide victory for Labor.
▪ John Milton is best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost, an account of humanity’s fall from grace.
▪ The Constitution mainly consists of: Statutory law, common law, and convention.
▪ The maximum duration of Parliament is five years and is dissolved by the Crown on the advice of the Prime Minister.
▪ The UK government, officially known as His (or Her) Majesty’s Government, is centered on Whitehall in London.
▪ The UK Cabinet meets in private and normally weekly at 10 Downing Street and initiates most of the important bills under debate in Parliament.
▪ These New England settlers—English puritans were committed to turning the New World into the Kingdom of God.
▪ An axis power in World War II refers to Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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▪ On 25 April, 1945, representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to create a world organization named the United Nation.
▪ The twin symbols of American Affluence-- home in the suburbs and a gleaming new automobile.
▪ The failure of the U.S. war in Vietnam filled most Americans with shame and the revelations of the Watergate scandals filled many with disgust.
▪ Lyndon Johnson deftly took charge of the nation’s political following Kennedy’s shocking assassination.
▪ The end of the Cold War was marked by the tearing-down of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
▪ Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
▪ Congress of the US is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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▪ Great Society： It refers to social reform programs proposed by Johnson. J meant to use federal political and financial power to solve such problems as related to civil rights, poverty, urban renewal, health care, public school education, immigration and conservation. US Congress enacted most of the Great Society measures between 1964 and 1966.
▪ Melting Pot：Since the United States is a nation of many ethnic groups, it is also known as a “melting pot,” meaning immigrants from different nations all over the world have mixed to make up the American nation.
▪ Domesday Book
The written record of a census and survey of English landowners and their property made by order of William the Conqueror in 1085-1086.
▪ Queen Elizabeth II
The present Sovereign, came to the throne in 1952 and was crowned in 1953. The Que
en is the symbol of the whole nation, the center of many national ceremonies and the leader of society.
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