From Slave To Superpower – How The U.S. Rose From British Colony To Global Warlord

New Delhi: The United States is now sitting at the beginning of the global table. He searches for shooting, starts wars, checks the currencies and decides who is imposed. However, the time of 250 years, and the self-declared leader of the free world was under foreign administration-a British colony like the other.

He celebrates America Independence Day every year on July 4th. However, the road from colonialism to colonial was laid with a cruel appetite for rebellion, blood, betrayal, expansion and power. The story of the rise of America is how quickly freedom can be.

The Empire, the owner of America

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail looking for India. Instead, he landed in the Caribbean and told Europe about this “new world .. Following this, there were European colonists, merchants and soldiers. These include the British who built 13 colonies on the eastern coast of North America and ruled them under the British crown.

Native Americans, the original residents, were pushed, taxed and massacred.

In the 1700s, discontent was boiled. The UK colonies taxed for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with every shipment. In 1776, 13 colony declared independence. The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, signed by leaders such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman.

War, resistance and a new nation

The fight was not easy. The British Empire did not leave without war. With determination, rebellion and local support, the Americans became liberated. At the end of the 18th century, the United States was born – the Union of Old Colonies that now calls him the “free country ..

George Washington became the first president. Benjamin Franklin became the symbol of the intellectual rise. The United States now had flags, borders and ambitions.

From fields to factories

In the 19th century, the new Republic, surrounded by colonial forces such as Britain, France and Spain, knew that he had to armed himself economically and militaryly. Agriculture caused machinery. Steam ships, railways and industrial factories became the engine of growth. America became a country of inventors, investors and immigrants.

In 1850, he seized several islands along the Caribbean and the Pacific. He was no longer hiding behind the Atlantic border.

The war that changed the game

In 1898, the United States clashed with Spain on the control of Cuba. Spain sank an American warship. America made retaliation. Cuba revolutionaries joined. Spain lost. America Guam, Porto Rico and Philippines won. He also annexed Hawaii. The American flag has now flew from the distant lands. The empire had begun quietly.

World War I: Global Arrival

When World War I broke out in 1914, the United States stayed away at first. In 1917, however, Germany sank American ships and planned with Mexico. That was the trigger. The United States entered the war, fought with the allies and helped them win. Washington is now a global player.

Sleeping giant wakes up

The real shift arrived in 1941. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor by killing more than 2,400 Americans. The United States went to war. II. He threw two nuclear bombs in Japan, which ended World War II. But this time he didn’t retreat home. It remained a superpower.

At the end of the war, Europe broke. It wasn’t America. In fact, during the war, the economy doubled. The dollar was the anchor of global currencies. The United States gave credit to Europe and Japan. The United Nations helped to establish the World Bank International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

He was no longer only one of the strong ones. That was the power.

Cold War and Control

After the war, the Cold War began. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) divided the world into blocks. In South Korea, the US supported democracy. In the north, the Soviet dictatorship supported. In Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Syria, the United States supported or broken governments depending on oil, commitment or arms agreements.

In Vietnam, Afghanistan, Latin America, American hands pulled ropes. They usually built; They usually destroyed. In both cases, they never leave control.

Moon, Gulf, Markets

In 1969, the US put a man on the moon. After crushing Iraq in the 1990s, he dominated the Gulf. Wall Street controlled global finance. Silicon Valley Controlled Technology. Hollywood controlled culture.

War work

Today, America manages the world’s largest arms industry. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the US is the number 1 arms exporter.

In some days, it only makes more than 7,500 RS ($ 900 million) that sells weapons. Sometimes it is sold to both sides in a war. He helps the allies to help, then sends bombs. Friends become buyers. Enemies become customers. The game continues.

Excavating in nations, a conflict every time

Look closely and find American fingerprints anywhere. The United States supported the division of Korea. He intervened in Iran, invaded Iraq, bombed Libya, and destroyed Afghanistan.

In Syria, he claimed that he had fought terrorism during financing groups. In Ukraine, he presented the country a geopolitical pawn and presented aid and weapons.

It finances Tel Aviv’s strikes in Palestinian bleeding in Israel.

Somewhere, behind every collapsed state and every foreign supported coup, is a strategy-to sell, to win contracts, to set rules and to remain dominant.

Freedom, power and influence price

America’s story began with the colonial administration with British taxes and rebellion. But on the ascension, it became the power it once fought. His independence was effective. His diplomacy became dominant.

Every July 4, fireworks illuminate the sky in the United States. But behind the glow there is a long and brutal history – it was protected by pressure from a fight and freedom with power.

From being an British colony to building military bases on the planet, the United States did not just grow up. Took part. And this accusation continues.